A comprehensive encyclopedia on African history with a broad cultural and geographic sweep, this outstanding new set covers African history from ancient times to the present.

This engaging set covers the entire expanse of African history as never before. It treats Africa -- its geography, art, cultures, peoples, personalities, and even its wildlife -- in three volumes, each devoted to a major period in the continent's development.Each volume's in-depth, heavily cross-referenced, and alphabetical entries draw students, researchers, and general readers into the histories of powerful kingdoms, advanced cities, and charismatic leaders that are all too little known. Filled with fascinating sidebars, unusual illustrations, and above all wonderful stories, these accessible, attractive, and very readable encyclopedias are authoritative information sources as well as entertaining and illuminating guides to the world's most diverse continent.This volume covers the earliest stages of Africa's history, from civilization's beginnings there through the Metallic Age, the kingdoms of Egypt and Nubia, Africa's interaction with ancient Greece and Rome, and the rise of Kush and Askum.

Offers more than one thousand entries covering all aspects of African history, civilization, and culture.

Offers a comprehensive, chronologically arranged encyclopedia for the general reader, covering all aspects of African history, civilization, and culture.