Critical Commentary on EA Volume I

• "This is the first major outcome of the Encyclopaedia Africana Project, and it is worth waiting for.  Both (historical) introductions are full but concise and are entirely suitable for their purposes. One can congratulate the editors and consultants on finding so many photographs.  The present dictionary is a valuable book of reference for historians and for all interested in the past of Ethiopia or Ghana."..
  --  West Africa
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• "Specially useful are the individual bibliographies.  Excellent introductions, country biographies, glossaries, maps, and a well-done index further enhance the value of the volume.  The complete set will be essential for Africana collections and large research libraries."..
  -- Library Journal
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• "About the richest source on the key figures in the history of Ethiopia and Ghana.  I am deeply impressed...
  --  George Houser, American Committee on Africa
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• "Informative and readable.  The writing is of excellent quality. There are fascinating glimpses of long-forgotten or neglected aspects of history. Carefully edited.  Promises to make an important contribution to our knowledge of Africa, presented in a fashion to make perusing it a pleasure."..
  -- Current History.
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• "There are four works, none of which is comparable with the Dictionary of African Biography, Volume one is a comprehensive retrospective biographical dictionary for Ethiopia and Ghana.  It is an attractive volume, with illustrations, portraits, maps, glossaries, good historical introductions before each country, useful bibliographies following each biography, and a good index."
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  "If succeeding volumes of the set maintain the high caliber of the first volume, the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography will be very useful to students of Africana."..
  -- Booklist