Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2005) by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., eds.
A
edit- Aardvark
- Aardwolf
- Aaron, Henry Louis (Hank)
- Abacha, Sani
- Abakuas
- Abbe
- Abbey
- Abbott, Diane
- Abbott, Robert Sengstacke
- Abd al-Qadir
- Abd Allah ibn Yasin
- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Abé
- Abeokuta, Nigeria
- Abernathy, Ralph David
- Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Abiola, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale
- Abolitionism in the United States
- Abolitionist Novels in Cuba: An Interpretation
- Abrahams, Peter
- Abron
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Abuja, Nigeria
- Abyssinia
- Acacia
- Acapulco, Mexico
- Accommodationism in the United States
- Accra, Ghana
- Acea, Isidro
- Achebe, Chinua
- Acholi
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Africa
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in the United States
- Adal
- Adampa
- Adams, Henry (political organizer)
- Adams, J(ohn) Q(uincy) (editor)
- Adams, Numa P(ompilius) G(arfield)
- Adams, Sir Grantley Herbert
- Adangbe
- Add, "Nigger"
- Adderley, Cannonball
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Ade, King Sunny
- Adger, Robert Mara
- Adja
- Afar
- Afars and Issas, French Territory of the
- Affirmative Action
- Afonso I
- Afoxés / Blocos Afros
- Africa
- Africa, Decolonization of
- Africa, Geography of
- African American Vernacular English
- African Americans, Charter Generation of
- African Blood Brotherhood
- African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights
- African Claims
- African Condition in the Shadow of Globalization
- African Cup of Nations
- African Elephant
- African Ethnic Groups in Latin America and the Caribbean
- African Free School
- African Hunting Dog
- African Linguistic Influences in Latin America and the Caribbean
- African Linguistic Influences on Brazilian Portuguese
- African Linguistic Influences on Brazilian Portuguese
- African Meeting House
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- African National Congress
- African Oral Literature
- African Origins of Humanity
- African Orthodox Church
- African Religions: An Interpretation
- African Socialism
- African Squadron
- African Studies in the United States: An Interpretation
- Afrikaner
- Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue Between Africa and the Americas
- Afro-Beat
- Afro-Brazilian Culture
- Afro-Caribbean Migrations to the United States
- Afro-Colombians: From Maroons to Constitutional Reformers: A
- Afro-Creole Music in Central America
- Afro-Cuban Political Mobilization: An Interpretation
- Afro-Cubans, Revolts, and Wars for Independence
- Afro-Hispanic Literature
- Afro-Latin America, Research on
- Afro-Latin America: 2000 and Beyond
- Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Identity: An Interpretation
- Afro-Latino Cultures in the United States
- Afrocentricity
- Afrocubanismo
- Afusari
- Afwerki, Isaias
- Agadez, Niger
- Agaja
- Agaw
- Agriculture, African, in the Americas: An Interpretation
- Aguirre Beltran, Gonzalo
- Ahanta
- Ahidjo, El Hajj Ahmadou
- Ahmad Baba
- Ai
- Aidid, Mohamed Farah
- Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Ailey, Alvin
- Aja
- Akan
- Akposo
- Aksum
- Akuapem
- Akunakuna
- Akyem
- Aladura Churches
- Alassane, Moustapha
- Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers
- Albizu Campos, Pedro
- Alcohol in Africa
- Aldridge, Ira
- Alexander, Clifford L., Jr.
- Alexander, John Hanks
- Alexander, Raymond Pace
- Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell
- Alexandria and Grecian Africa: An Interpretation
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Alexis, Jacques Stéphen
- Alfonso I
- Algarín, Miguel
- Algeria
- Algiers, Algeria
- Ali, Muhammad
- Ali, Noble Drew
- Alí, Pablo
- Allain, Théophile T.
- Allen, Macon B.
- Allen, Richard
- Allensworth, Allen
- Almohads
- Almoravids
- Aloe
- Alston, Charles Henry
- Alur
- Amadi, Elechi
- Amado, Jorge
- Amazon
- Amenia Conference of 1916
- Amenia Conference of 1933
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- American Colonization Society
- American Electoral Politics, Blacks in
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
- American Indians
- American Moral Reform Society
- American Negro Academy
- American Negro Theatre
- American Revolution
- American Urban Radio Networks
- American West, Blacks in the
- Americo-Liberians
- Amhara
- Amin, Idi
- Amistad Mutiny
- Amo, Anton Wilhelm
- Amos 'n' Andy
- Amsterdam News
- An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
- Ana
- Anancy Story
- Anang
- Anastacia
- Ancient African Civilizations
- Anderson, Eddie ("Rochester")
- Anderson, Marian
- Anderson, Osborne Perry
- Andes, Blacks During Colonial Times in the
- Andrada e Silva, José Bonifacio de
- Andrews, Benny
- Andrianampoinimerina
- Anga
- Angelou, Maya
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Animals in Africa
- Annan, Kofi
- Antaisaka
- Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Antandroy
- Antelope
- Antelope Case
- Anthropology in Africa
- Anti-Slavery Movement in Latin America
- Antiabolitionism
- Antiapartheid Movement
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Antilles
- Antilynching Movement
- Antoine, Caesar Carpetier
- Anton
- Anuak
- Anyi
- Apartheid
- Apollo Theater
- Aponte, José Antonio
- Apostolic Movement
- Appiah, Joseph
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Apprenticeship in the British Caribbean
- Architects, African American
- Architects and Architecture
- Arctotis
- Argentina
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
- Armah, Ayi Kwei
- Armenteros, Alfredo "Chocolate"
- Armistead, James (Lafayette)
- Armstrong, Lil(lian) Hardin
- Armstrong, Louis ("Satchmo")
- Arnett, Benjamin William, Jr.
- Aro
- Arozarena, Marcelino
- Art and Architecture, African
- Art Collections in the United States
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Art, African American
- Artel, Jorge
- Artis, William Ellisworth
- Artists, African
- Artists, African American
- Artists, Latin American and Caribbean
- Aruba
- Arusha
- Arusha, Tanzania
- Arusi
- Asal, Lake
- Asante
- Asante, Molefi Kete
- Asantewa, Yaa
- Ashe, Arthur Robert, Jr.
- Ashford, Evelyn
- Ashley, Maurice
- Askia Muhammad
- Asmara, Eritrea
- Asociación de Negros Ecuatorianos
- Assin
- Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
- Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
- Astronomy, African
- Aswan High Dam
- At the Heart of Slavery
- Athletes, African, Abroad
- Atilla de Hun
- Atkins, Cholly
- Atlanta Compromise
- Atlanta Exposition
- Atlanta Life Insurance Company
- Atlanta Riot of 1906
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Atlantic Creoles: The Charter Generations
- Atlas Mountains
- Attica Uprising
- Attié
- Attitudes Towards Blacks in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Attucks, Crispus
- Augusta, Alexander Thomas
- Augustine, Saint
- Aushi
- Averroës
- Aviators, African American
- Awolowo, Obafemi
- Awoonor, Kofi
- Axé Music
- Axé Opô Afonj
- Azande
- Azania
- Azeredo, Albuino
- Azevedo, Aluísio
- Azikiwe, Nnamdi
B
edit- Bâ, Amadou Hampaté
- Bâ, Mariama
- Babalâo
- Babangida, Ibrahim Gbadamosi
- Babimbi
- Baboon
- Baca, Susana
- Back to Africa Movement
- Bade
- Baez, Buenaventura
- Baga
- Baganda
- Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste
- Baggara
- Baghio'o, Jean Louis
- Bagnall, Robert Wellington
- Baha'i Faith
- Bahamas, The
- Bahia
- Bailey, Pearl
- Baka
- Bakèlè
- Baker, Augusta
- Baker, Edward Lee, Jr.
- Baker, Ella J.
- Baker, Josephine
- Baker, Josephine and La Revue Nègre
- Bakoko
- Bakossi
- Bakota
- Bakweri
- Balaguer, Joaquín
- Balanta
- Baldwin, James
- Baldwin, Maria Louise
- Balé Folclórico da Bahia
- Balewa, Abubakar Tafawa
- Ball, James Presley
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Bamako, Mali
- Bambara
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Bamiléké
- Banana
- Banda
- Banda, Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu
- Banderas y Betancourt, José Quintín
- Bangui, Central African Republic
- Banjo
- Banjul, The Gambia
- Bankole, Ayo
- Banks, Ernest (Ernie)
- Banneker, Benjamin
- Bannister, Edward Mitchell
- Bantu Educational Cinema Experiment
- Bantu Migrations in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Bantu: Dispersion and Settlement
- Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaim
- Baobab
- Baptist War
- Baptists
- Baquaqua, Mohammah
- Bara
- Baraka, Amiri
- Barbadoes, James G.
- Barbados
- Barber, Francis
- Barber, Jesse Max
- Barbershops and Beauty Parlors
- Barbosa, José Celso
- Barbosa, Rui
- Barcala, Lorenzo
- Barès, Basile
- Barghash ibn Sa'id
- Bari
- Bariba
- Barnet, Miguel
- Barnett, Claude Albert
- Barnett, Etta Moten
- Barreto, Ray
- Barrett, Janie Porter
- Barrios, Pilar
- Barrow, Errol Walton
- Barry, Marion Shepilov, Jr.
- Barth, Heinrich
- Barthé, Richmond
- Baseball in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Baseball in the United States
- Basie, William James ("Count")
- Basketball
- Basora, Santiago
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel
- Bass, Charlotta Spears
- Bassa of Cameroon
- Bassa of Liberia
- Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
- Bassett, Angela
- Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos
- Basutoland
- Bates, Clayton ("Peg Leg")
- Bates, Daisy Lee Gatson
- Batista, Fulgencio
- Batson, Flora
- Battey, Cornelius M.
- Battle, Kathleen
- Batuque
- Baule
- Bauza, Mario
- Bayano, King
- BCM
- Bearden, Romare
- Beasley, Delilah Isontium
- Beatrice, Dona
- Beavers, Louise
- Bebop
- Bechet, Sidney Joseph
- Bechuanaland
- Beckwourth, James Pierson
- Bedia, José
- Bédié, Henri-Konan
- Bedouin
- Bedward, Alexander
- Bee-Eater
- Beira, Mozambique
- Beja
- Belafonte, Harold George (Harry)
- Belgian Congo
- Belgrave, Valerie
- Belize
- Bell, George (educator)
- Bell, James Madison
- Bell, James Thomas "Cool Papa"
- Bell, Philip Alexander
- Bell, Rudolph Douala Manga
- Bellegarde, Dantès
- Bello, Ahmadu
- Bello, Muhammad
- Belmopan, Belize
- Bemba
- Bembeya Jazz National
- Ben Bella, Ahmed
- Bena
- Benedict of Palermo, Saint
- Benga
- Beni Amer
- Benin
- Benin Bronzes
- Benin, Art of the Early Kingdom of
- Benin, Early Kingdom of
- Benjamin, R(obert) C(harles) O('hara)
- Benjedid, Chadli
- Benjor, Jorge
- Bennett, Lerone, Jr.
- Bennett, Louise
- Berber
- Berbice Slave Rebellion
- Bérenger, Paul
- Beri
- Berimbau
- Berlin Conference of 1884-1885
- Bermuda
- Berry, Charles Edward Anderson (Chuck)
- Berry, Edwin C.
- Berry, Halle Maria
- Berry, James
- Berry, Leon Brown ("Chu")
- Berry, Mary Frances
- Berti
- Betances, Ramón Emeterio
- Bété
- Bethune, Mary McLeod
- Bethune, Thomas Greene ("Blind Tom")
- Beti
- Beti, Mongo
- Betsileo
- Betsimisaraka
- Beulah
- Biafra, Republic of
- Bibb, Henry Walton
- Bidima, Jean-Godefroy
- Bigaud, Wilson
- Biggers, John
- Bight of Benin
- Biguine
- Bijagó
- Bikila, Abebe
- Biko, Stephen
- Bilin
- Billy
- Bim
- Bimoba
- Binga, Jesse
- Biogeography of Africa
- Biohó, Benkos
- Biquiba de La Fuente Guarany, Francisco
- Bird, Vere Cornwall
- Birifor
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Birom
- Birth of a Nation, The
- Bisa
- Bisharin
- Bishop, Maurice
- Bishop, Sanford
- Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Bivins, Horace W.
- Biya, Paul
- Black-Asian Relations
- Black Aesthetic, The
- Black and White
- Black Arts Movement
- Black Arts Movement: An Interpretation
- Black Athena
- Black Autochthonous Party
- Black Cabinet
- Black Church, The
- Black Codes in Latin America
- Black Codes in the United States
- Black Collectibles
- Black Consciousness and Popular Music in Latin America and t
- Black Consciousness in Africa
- Black Consciousness in Brazil
- Black Consciousness in the United States
- Black Cowboys
- Black Entertainment Television
- Black Families in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Interp
- Black Feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Black History Month
- Black Jews
- Black Journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Black Journalism in the United States
- Black Literary and Cultural Movements
- Black Manifesto
- Black Mural Movement, The
- Black Nationalism in the United States
- Black Orpheus
- Black Panther Party
- Black Power in the United States
- Black Power Movement in the Caribbean
- Black Racial Identity
- Black Seminoles
- Black Star Line
- Black Swan Records
- Black Theatre Alliance
- Black Theology in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Interp
- Black Theology in the United States
- Black Towns
- Black Women's Club Movement
- Black World / Negro Digest
- Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Interpretation
- Blacks and the Military in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Blackwell, Unita
- Blades, Rubén
- Blake, James Hubert ("Eubie")
- Blakey, Art
- Bland, Bobby ("Blue")
- Bland, James A.
- Blaxploitation Films
- Bledsoe, Julius C. (Jules)
- Blondy, Alpha
- Blue Nile
- Blue-Eyed African Daisy
- Bluefields
- Blues
- Blues in the 1990s: Toward Twilight or a New Dawn?
- Blues: The Growth of a Genre
- Bluford, Guion Stewart (Guy), Jr.
- Blyden, Edward Wilmot
- Boateng, Paul
- Bobo
- Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Boganda, Barthélemy
- Bogle, Paul
- Boissiere, Rafael de
- Bokassa, Jean-Bédel
- Bokyi
- Bola de Nieve
- Bola Sete
- Bolden, Charles Joseph ("Buddy")
- Bolero
- Bolin, Jane Mathilda
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bolivia
- Boll Weevil
- Bonaire
- Bond, Horace Mann
- Bond, Julian
- Bonds, Barry Lamar
- Bondei
- Bongo
- Bongo, Omar (Albert-Bernard)
- Bonner, Marita
- Bontemps, Arna
- Boogaloo
- Boogie-Woogie
- Book of the Dead
- Boomslang Snake
- Bophuthatswana
- Boran
- Borders, William Holmes
- Bororo
- Bossa Nova
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Botha, Pieter Willem
- Botswana
- Bouabré, Frédéric-Bruly
- Bouchet, Edward Alexander
- Boudjedra, Rachid
- Boukman
- Boukman Eksperyans
- Boumedienne, Houari
- Bourguiba, Habib ibn Ali
- Bourne, St. Claire Cecil
- Bousfield, Midian Othello
- Boutelle, Frazier Augustus
- Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
- Bowen, John Wesley Edward
- Bowers, Thomas J.
- Bowles, Eva D(el Vakia)
- Boxing
- Boyd, Henry Allen
- Boyd, Richard Henry
- Boyer, Jean-Pierre
- Boza
- Bradford, Alex
- Bradley, David Henry, Jr.
- Bradley, Edward R.
- Bradley, Thomas (Tom)
- Bradshaw, Robert Llewellyn
- Bragg, George Freeman, Jr.
- Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont
- Brand, Dionne
- Brathwaite, Edward Kamau
- Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
- Brawley, Edward McKnight
- Braxton, Anthony
- Brazil
- Brazil's Relationship with Africa: An Interpretation
- Brazil, Blacks and Politics in: An Interpretation
- Brazilian Television, Black Actors on
- Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de
- Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
- Break Dancing
- Bridgetower, George Frederick Polgreen
- Bridgetown, Barbados
- Briggs, Cyril Valentine
- Brimmer, Andrew F.
- Brindis de Salas, Claudio
- Brindis de Salas, Virginia
- Brink, André Philippus
- British Central Africa
- British Honduras
- British Somaliland
- British West Indies, Music of the
- Brito, Edivaldo
- Brixton Riots of 1981
- Brodber, Erna
- Brooke, Edward W., III
- Brooks, Arthur
- Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth
- Brooks, Walter Henderson
- Broonzy, William Lee Conley ("Big Bill")
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Brown Fellowship Society
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Brown, Anne Wiggins
- Brown, Carlinhos
- Brown, Charlotte Hawkins
- Brown, Claude
- Brown, Clifford
- Brown, Corrine
- Brown, Everald
- Brown, Hallie Quinn
- Brown, Henry ("Box")
- Brown, Hubert G. ("H. Rap")
- Brown, James
- Brown, Jesse Leroy
- Brown, Jim
- Brown, John
- Brown, John Mifflin (American cleric)
- Brown, Morris
- Brown, Ronald H.
- Brown, Ruth
- Brown, Solomon G.
- Brown, Sterling Allen
- Brown, Tony
- Brown, Willa
- Brown, William Wells
- Brown, Willie Lewis, Jr.
- Browne, Hugh M.
- Brownsville, Texas, Affair
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso
- Bruce, John Edward
- Brunswijk, Ronnie
- Brutus, Dennis
- Bryan, Andrew
- Bubi
- Buck and Bubbles
- Budd, Zola
- Budjga
- Budu
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Buganda, Early Kingdom of
- Builsa
- Bujumbura, Burundi
- Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Bulbul, Zózimo
- Bullins, Edward (Ed)
- Bulu
- Bunche, Ralph Johnson
- Bunu
- Bura
- Burch, Charles Eaton
- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
- Burgos, Julia de
- Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite
- Burkina Faso
- Burkina Faso
- Burleigh, Henry Thacker (Harry)
- Burnett, Charles
- Burnham, Linden Forbes Sampson
- Burns, Anthony
- Burrell, Kenny
- Burroughs, Nannie Helen
- Burton, Sir Richard
- Burundi
- Busa
- Busansi
- Bush Negroes
- Bush, Anita
- Bush, George Washington
- Bush, John Edward
- Bush, William Owen
- Bushmen
- Busia, Kofi Abrefa
- Business and African Americans
- Bussa
- Bussa's Rebellion
- Bustamante, Sir Alexander
- Buthelezi, Mangosutho Gatsha
- Butler, Octavia Estelle
- Butler, Thomas C.
- Butler, Tubal Uriah
- Butts, Calvin O., III
- Buyoya, Pierre
- Bwiti
C
edit- Cabora Bassa
- Cabral, Amílcar
- Cabral, Luís
- Cabral, Manuel del
- Cabrera, Lydia
- Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau
- Cacos
- Caesar, John
- Cafundó
- Caillié, René-Auguste
- Cain, Richard Harvey
- Cairo, Egypt
- Cakewalk, The
- Caldas Barbosa, Domingos
- Caliver, Ambrose
- Callioux, Andreé
- Calloway, Cabell (Cab)
- Calloway, Nathaniel Oglesby
- Calypso
- Cambridge, Godfrey MacArthur
- Camel
- Cameroon
- Cameroon Lions
- Cameroon Mountain
- Caminha, Adolfo
- Campanella, Roy
- Campbell, James Edwin
- Campbell, Luther
- Campbell, Naomi
- Campbell, Roy
- Campbell, Thomas Monroe
- Campeche, José
- Campos-Pons, María Magdalena
- Camus, Albert
- Canada
- Candace, Gratien
- Candelabra Tree
- Cândido, João
- Candombe (music)
- Candomblé
- Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
- Cape Colony
- Cape Coloured
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Cape Verde
- Cape Verde, Ethnicity in
- Capécia, Mayotte
- Capitein, Jacobus Elisa
- Capoeira
- Caprivi Strip
- Carbonell, Walterio
- Cardiff, Great Britain
- Cardozo, Francis Louis
- Cardozo, William Warrick
- Carew, Jan
- Carew, Rod
- Caribana
- Caribbean Cinema
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Carneiro, Edison
- Carney, William H.
- Carnivals in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Carpentier, Alejo
- Carpetbaggers
- Carr, Wynona
- Carrington, Walter C.
- Carroll, Diahann
- Carson, Julia
- Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
- Cartagena Portalatín, Aída
- Carter, Bennett Lester (Benny)
- Carter, Betty
- Carter, Louis A(ugustus)
- Carter, Martin
- Carthage
- Cartola
- Carver, George Washington
- Cary, Lott
- Cary, Mary Ann Shadd
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Casely-Hayford, Joseph Ephraim
- Cassell, Albert Irvin
- Castera, Georges
- Castes
- Castor Bean
- Castries, St. Lucia
- Castro Alves, Antônio de
- Castro, Fidel
- Catholic Church in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Catimbó
- Catlett, Elizabeth
- Caturla, Alejandro García
- Cayenne, French Guiana
- Cayman Islands
- Caymmi, Dorival
- Cayton, Horace Roscoe, Jr.
- Central African Empire
- Central African Republic
- Central America
- Centro de Articulação de Populações Marginalizadas
- Césaire, Aimé
- Cetshwayo
- Chad
- Chad, Lake
- Chagga
- Chamba
- Chamberlain, Wilt
- Chamoiseau, Patrick
- Chaney, James Earl
- Chapman, Tracy
- Chari
- Charlemagne, Manno
- Charles, Mary Eugenia
- Charles, Ray
- Charles, RuPaul Andre
- Charleston, Oscar
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Chase, W(illiam) Calvin
- Chase-Riboud, Barbara Dewayne
- Chatoyer, Joseph
- Chauvet, Marie
- Chavis, Benjamin Franklin, Jr.
- Chavis, John
- Cheatham, Henry Plummer
- Checker, Chubby
- Cheetah
- Chemistry
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
- Chess Records
- Chester, T(homas) Morris
- Chewa
- Chicago Defender
- Chicago Riot of 1919
- Chicago, Illinois
- Chico Rei
- Childers, Lulu V(ere)
- Children's Literature, African American
- Children's Work in Africa
- Childress, Alice
- Chile
- Chilembwe, John
- Chiluba, Frederick
- Chimpanzee
- Chimurenga Music
- Chirinos, José Leonardo
- Chisholm, Shirley
- Chissano, Joaquim
- Chokossi
- Chokwe
- Christian, Charlie
- Christian-Christensen, Donna
- Christiana Revolt of 1851
- Christianity
- Christianity, African: An Overview
- Christianity: Independent and Charismatic Churches in Africa
- Christianity: Missionaries in Africa
- Christophe, Henri
- Chuabo
- Church of God in Christ
- Church, Robert Reed, Jr.
- Church, Robert Reed, Sr.
- Cimarrón
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Cinema Novo
- Cinema, African
- Cinema, Black, in Brazil
- Cinema, Black, in Spanish America
- Cinque, Joseph
- Ciskei
- Cissé, Souleymane
- Citizenship Schools
- Civil Rights Congress
- Civil Rights Movement
- Civil War, American
- Clapperton, Hugh
- Clark, Alexander G.
- Clark, J(oseph) S(amuel)
- Clark, John Pepper
- Clark, Kenneth Bancroft
- Clark, Septima Poinsette
- Clarke, Austin C.
- Clarke, John Henrik
- Clarke, Lewis G.
- Classical Music and African Americans
- Classicism, Black, in the United States
- Clay, William Lacy
- Clayton, Eva
- Cleaver, Eldridge Leroy
- Clement, Rufus Early
- Clemente, Roberto
- Cleopatra
- Cleopatra: An Interpretation
- Clergy in Politics
- Cleveland, James Edward
- Cliff, Jimmy
- Cliff, Michelle
- Climate of Africa
- Clinton, George
- Clitoridectomy
- Clothing in Africa
- Clyburn, James
- Coastal Resources in Africa
- Coasters, The
- Cobb, Jewel Plummer
- Cobb, William Montague
- Cobra
- Cocoa
- Códigos Negros Españoles
- Coelacanth
- Coetzee, J(ohn) M(ichael)
- Coicou, Massillon
- Coker, Daniel
- Cold War and Africa
- Cole, Bob
- Cole, Nat "King"
- Coleman, Bessie
- Coleman, Ornette
- Coleman, William T(haddeus), Jr.
- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
- Colescott, Robert H.
- Collares, Alceu
- Collectors of African American Books
- Colleges and Universities, Historically Black, in the United States
- Colobus Monkey
- Colombia
- Colón, Jesús
- Colón, Willie
- Colonial America
- Colonial America, Blacks in
- Colonial Critics of Slavery
- Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
- Colonial Mexico, Africans in
- Colonial Rule
- Coltrane, John William
- Combs, Sean ("P. Diddy")
- Comic Books
- Comic Strips
- Commemoration Festivals in the United States
- Commodification of African Art: An Interpretation
- Comorians
- Comoros
- Compaoré, Blaise
- Compas
- Complexities of Ethnic and Racial Terminology in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Compromise of 1850
- Conakry, Guinea
- Condé, Maryse
- Cone, James Hal
- Confiant, Raphaël
- Congo Free State
- Congo River
- Congo, Belgian
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Francisco
- Congo, Republic of the
- Congo Square and African Music
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Congress, African Americans in
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Congresso Afro-Brasileiro
- Conservation in Africa
- Conspiración de la Escalera
- Constantine, Learie Nicholas
- Conté, Lansana
- Contemporary African Writers in France
- Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Music
- Conwell, Kathleen
- Conyers, John F., Jr.
- Cook, George F. T.
- Cook, George William
- Cook, John Francis, Jr.
- Cook, John Francis, Sr.
- Cook, Will Marion
- Cooke, Sam
- Cooper, Anna Julia Hayward
- Cooper, John W(alcott)
- Copeland, John Anthony, Jr.
- Copperheads
- Coppin, Frances (Fanny) Jackson
- Coppin, Levi Jenkins
- Coppolani, Xavier
- Corbin, Joseph Carter
- Cordero, Rafael
- Cordero, Roque
- Córdoba, Diego Luis
- Cornish, Samuel E(li)
- Coronation Festivals in the United States
- Corsairs
- Cortez, Jayne
- Cortijo, Rafael
- Cosby, Bill
- Costa Rica
- Coston, Julia Ringwood
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cotonou, Benin
- Cotter, Joseph Seamon, Sr.
- Cotton Club
- Cotton Production in the United States
- Council of Federated Organizations
- Council on African Affairs
- Councill, William Hooper
- Couvent, Madame Bernard
- Cowpea
- Craft, Ellen and William
- Creole Affair
- Creoles
- Créolité
- Creolization: An Interpretation
- Creolized Musical Instruments of the Caribbean
- Criminal Justice System and African Americans
- Crisis, The
- Critchlow, Hubert Nathaniel
- Crite, Allan Rohan
- Crittenden Compromise
- Crockett, George William Jr.
- Crocodile, Nile
- Crogman, William H(enry)
- Cromwell, John Wesley
- Cromwell, Oliver (soldier)
- Crosswaith, Frank Rudolph
- Crowther, Samuel Ajayi
- Crum, William D(emos)
- Crummell, Alexander
- Crusades
- Cruse, Harold Wright
- Cruz e Sousa, João da
- Cruz, Celia
- Cuba
- Cuban Politics Before the Race War of 1912
- Cuban War of Independence
- Cudjoe
- Cuffe, Paul
- Cugoano, Ottobah
- Cullen, Countee
- Cultural and Political Organizations in Latin America
- Cultural Politics of Blackness in Latin America and the Cari
- Culture, Black, in Colombia
- Cumbia
- Cummings, Elijah
- Cuney, Norris Wright
- Cuney-Hare, Maud
- Curaçao
- Currin, Green Jacob
- Curtis, Austin Maurice
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edit- D'Rivera, Paquito
- Da Costa, Mathieu
- Dabney, Austin
- Dabney, Wendell Phillips
- Dacko, David
- Daddah, Moktar Ould
- Dafi
- Dagari
- Dagomba
- Dahomey
- Dahomey, Early Kingdom of
- Dailey, Ulysses Grant
- Dakar, Senegal
- Damas, Léon-Gontran
- Dan
- Danakil
- Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Dance in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Dance Theater of Harlem
- Dance, African American
- Dancehall
- Dandridge, Dorothy
- Dangme
- Danquah, Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Darfur
- Dart, Isom
- Dash, Julie
- Date Palm
- Davenport, Willie D.
- Davidson, Olivia America
- Davidson, William
- Davila, Angela María
- Davis, Allison
- Davis, Angela Yvonne
- Davis, Anthony
- Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.
- Davis, Benjamin O., Sr.
- Davis, Danny K.
- Davis, John Henry
- Davis, Miles
- Davis, Ossie
- Davis, Sammy, Jr.
- Dawson, William Levi
- Day, Thomas (furniture maker)
- De Klerk, Frederik Willem
- De La Soul
- De Souza, Ruth
- Deacons for Defense and Justice
- Deadwood Dick
- Dean, William H., Jr.
- Décima
- Declaration of Independence
- Decoding Ralph Ellison
- Decolonization in Africa: An Interpretation
- Dédé, Edmond
- Dee, Ruby
- Deforo
- Delaney, Beauford
- Delaney, Joseph
- Delany, Martin Robison
- Delany, Samuel R.
- DeLarge, Robert C.
- DeLavallade, Carmen
- Delgrès, Louis
- Dellums, Ronald V. (Ron)
- Democratic Party
- Denakil
- Dendi
- Dengel, Lebna
- Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
- Dentistry
- Depestre, René
- DePriest, Oscar Stanton
- Derricotte, Juliette (Aline)
- Deschamps Chapeaux, Pedro
- Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien
- Desegregation in the United States
- Dessalines, Jean-Jacques
- Detroit Riot of 1943
- Detroit Riot of 1967
- Detroit, Michigan
- Dett, R(obert) Nathaniel
- Development
- Development in Africa: An Interpretation
- Development in Africa: An Interpretation
- Development of Technology, African Americans and the
- Diagne, Blaise
- Dialect Poetry
- Dias, Henrique
- Diaspora and Displacement
- Dib, Mohammed
- Dickerson, Earl Burris
- Dida
- Diddley, Bo
- Diegues, Carlos
- Digo
- Dill, Augustus Granville
- Dingane
- Dinka
- Dinkins, David Norman
- Diop, Alioune
- Diop, Cheikh Anta
- Diori, Hamani
- Diouf, Abdou
- Discrimination in Employment in the United States
- Disease and African History
- Disease in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Disease, Medicine, and Health
- Diseases, Infectious, in Africa
- Divine, Father
- Dixon, George ("Little Chocolate") (boxer)
- Dixon, Graciela
- Dixon, Julian
- Dixon, Willie
- Djavan
- Djebar, Assia
- Djenné
- Djenné-Jeno, Mali
- Djibouti
- Djibouti, Djibouti
- DNA: An Alternative Record of African History
- Dobbs, Mattiwilda
- Doby, Larry
- Doctors, African American
- Doe, Samuel Kanyon
- Dogon
- Dogon Art and Architecture
- Dolphy, Eric
- Domingo, Wilfred Adolphus
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Dominican-Haitian Relations
- Domino, Fats
- Donatism
- Donga
- Dorsey, Thomas Andrew
- Dos Santos, José Eduardo
- Douala, Cameroon
- Double-V Campaign
- Douglas, Aaron
- Douglass, Frederick
- Douglass, Sarah Mapps
- Dove, Rita
- Downing, George Thomas
- Downing, Henry F(rancis)
- Dozens, The
- Drake, St. Clair
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Drew, Charles Richard
- Drifters, The
- Driskell, David
- Drought and Desertification
- Drury, Theodore
- Du Bois, Shirley Graham
- Du Bois, W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
- Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe
- Dual Tradition of African American Fiction: An Interpretatio
- Duala
- Dub
- Dub Poetry
- Dube, John Langalibalele
- Dudley, Sherman H.
- Duiker
- Dumas, Alexandre, Père
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
- Duncan, Quince
- Duncan, Todd
- Duncanson, Robert S.
- Dunham, Katherine
- Dunjee, Roscoe
- Dunkley, John
- Dunn, Oscar J(ames)
- Duran, Alejo
- Durand, Oswald
- Durban, South Africa
- Durham Manifesto
- Durham, James
- Durham, North Carolina
- Duruma
- Dusé Mohammed Ali
- Dutch West India Company
- Duvalier, François
- Duvalier, Jean-Claude
- Dyani, Johnny Mbizo
- Dyer Bill
- Dyula
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- Early Rastafarian Leaders
- Early Rock and Roll and the White Negro
- Early, Jordan Winston
- Earth Pig
- East African Community
- East Indian Communities in the Caribbean
- East St. Louis Riot of 1917
- Eastern Cape
- Ebira
- Ebola
- Ebony
- Éboué, Félix
- Echemendía, Ambrosio
- Eckstine, William Clarence (Billy)
- Economic Community of West African States
- Economic Development in Africa
- Ecuador
- Edelman, Marian Wright
- Edgell, Zee
- Edison, Harry "Sweets"
- Edo
- Education in Africa
- Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Educational Organizations in the United States
- Edward, Lake
- Edwards, Melvin
- Efik
- Efutu
- Egba
- Egypt
- Egypt, Ancient Kingdom of
- Egyptian Mythology
- Ekiti
- Ekoi
- Ekonda
- Ekwensi, Cyprian
- El Salvador
- Elaine, Arkansas, Riot of 1919
- Eland
- Elaw, Zilphia
- Elder, Robert Lee
- Elders, M. Joycelyn Jones
- Eldridge, Elleanor
- Eldridge, Roy
- Electoral Commission of 1877
- Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("Duke")
- Elliott, Robert Brown
- Ellis, George Washington
- Ellison, Ralph
- Eloyi
- Emancipation Festivals in the United States
- Emancipation in the United States
- Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
- Embu
- Emecheta, Buchi
- Engenho Velho
- Enriquillo
- Environmental Movements in Africa
- Environmental Racism: An Interpretation
- Episcopal Church
- Equatorial Guinea
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Eric B. and Rakim
- Eritrea