Africana Studies : encyclopedias and handbooks

• Africa: an encyclopedia for students - covering animals, foods, holidays and festivals, tribal groups, ecology, music and art, trade and economy, geography, religion, folklore, and fossil and skeletal discoveries
• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries.
• East Africa Living Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Mythica: African Mythology
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
• Living Encyclopedia of Global African Music

In print in Crumb Library reference collection:

• Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. (Ref DT 14.A37435 1999) - also on CD.
• The Encyclopedia of Pre-Colonial Africa. (Ref DT 2.E53 1997)
• Encyclopedia of the peoples of the world (Ref GN 495.4.E53 1993) brief, good for browsing
• Black Africa: a comparative handbook (Ref DT 352.8 .M67 1989) comparative studies, with data; and country profiles. Includes bibliographies.
• Africa south of the Sahara. (Ref DT 351.E53 1997) background essays and country surveys.
• Dictionnaire des civilizations africaines (Ref DT 352.4.B3) Very good. In French.
• Historical atlas of Africa (Ref G 2446.S1H5 1985) to see movements of peoples and other historical events portrayed in maps
• The Middle East and North Africa. (Ref DS 49.M5 2000)