The Black Handbook

Which Pope gave the King of Portugal permission to 'invade, conquer and submit to perpetual slavery the people of Africa'? What was the African Blood Brotherhood? Why was a Jamaican the last man to be beheaded in Britain? Who were 'the talented tenth'? Who was the first Black American woman to become a millionaire? Why did Egypt invade Ethiopia in 1875? Which Black man was one of the first people to die to free America from British rule? The Black Handbook spans three continents to describe and analyze the essential events, ideas and personalities of Africa and the African Diaspora past and present. Packed with data, statistical information and background material, its 1700 entries offer everything you need to know about the politics and culture of the world's estimated 670 million (27 million in the USA alone) Africans and people of African descent.