Including more than one million words, this work features entries on African kingdoms. It offers coverage of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, and is a reference set on the African experience.

African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African istelf have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up "Africana" cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from Lucy, our oldest-known human ancestor, to Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, "Africana, Second Edition", conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.