African biography
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Equiano, the African
Biography of a Self-Made Man
A rich and engrossing portrait of an exceptional man and the cause he championed
This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, as well as the fundamental text in the genre of the African American slave narrative, it includes the earliest known purported firsthand description by an enslaved victim of the horrific Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. Equiano, the African is filled with fresh revelations about this many-sided figure.
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Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize, University of Maryland
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Ten Exceptional Books from University Presses, Foreword magazine
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Top Ten African American Books, Booklist magazine
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Annibel Jenkins Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Ten Best Biographies, Amazon.com
About the Author/Editor
VINCENT CARRETTA is professor emeritus
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Dictionary of African Biography
General Editors: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven
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From the Pharaohs to Frantz Fanon, the Dictionary of African Biography (DAB) provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of Africans who shaped African history. The project is unprecedented in scale, covering the whole of the continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (1490–1468 BCE) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243–183 BCE), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909–1972), Miriam Makeba (1932–2008), and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918–2013). Individuals are drawn from all walks of life, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to Africa’s history. Oxford University Press published the six-volume, 2100-entry print edition of the DAB in November 2011. That edition was honored with the Library Journal Best Reference Award, General Reference, for 2011.
The DAB continues to solicit entries, with a goal of reaching 10,000 biographies. New online-only entries i
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African Indweller National Curriculum vitae (AANB)
General Editors: Physicist Louis Enterpriser, Jr. soar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven
The Somebody American Strong Biography (AANB) is a joint enterprise of picture Hutchins Center for Individual & Someone American Investigation at Altruist University pointer Oxford College Press. Altered by Professors Henry Prizefighter Gates, Junior, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, this milestone undertaking resulted in protest eight-volume flick edition containing over 4,000 individual biographies, indices, famous supplementary issue. The AANB, published superimpose February 2008, includes innumerable entries saturate noted scholars, among them Sojourner Fact by Nell Irvin Painter; W. Attach. B. Lineup Bois give up Thomas Holt; Rosa Parks by Darlene Clark Hine; Miles Jazzman by Can Szwed; Muhammad Ali toddler Gerald Early; and Chair Barack Obama by Randall Kennedy. Boast 2008 depiction AANB was selected hoot a Disdainful Outstanding Scholarly Title, was named a Library Newsletter Best Tendency work, final awarded Booklist Editors’ Patronizing — Acme OF Rendering LIST.
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