The original ?Africana? was inspired by a dream of the late W.E.B. Du Bois & shaped by an eminent advisory board led by the Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. It packed 3,500 entries into 2,000 pages & garnered great critical acclaim. Now, in ?Africana? Arts & Letters,? series editors Kwame Anthony Appiah & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., present a selection of the most notable African-American events, writers, musicians & artists that helped to shape...