Wednesday, 19 June, 2013
Category: Humanities » Critical Theory
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One night in 1973, a bunch of promising scholars gathered in an Indian restaurant near Cambridge University and made a doozy. Three bottles deep in wine, a 23-year-old Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.; 19-year-old Kwame Anthony Appiah; and a Nigerian professor in his 30s, Wole Soyinka, all made an ambitious pledge: to put together a Pan-African encyclopedia.
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