Encarta Africana

Encarta Africana

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Encarta Africana
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"The disks -- crammed with 2.5 million words and more than 2,500 pictures, maps, graphs, sounds and video clips on practically all things of African descent -- reverberate with their subject. A mouse click can send users, even those with modestly powered personal computers, on a cinematic voyage along the Swahili coast, or permit them to retrace centuries of slave routes between the "dark continenet" and the New World, or simply watch, in stunningly stark video clips, haunting scenes of civil rights marchers being attacked with fire hoses and police dogs. "...a groundbreaking marriage of content and technology "" -- The New York Times

Key Features

	Comprehensive and Authoritative Content: ENCARTA AFRICANA's content is guided by Afropaedia LLC, an esteemed team that includes scholars from Harvard University's Department of Afro-American Studies, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, and the Committee on African Studies.
	Authoritative Articles: More than 3,000 detailed articles cover a broad range of topics, including geography, history, and cultural achievements of African countries and people of African descent, from 4 million B.C.E. to the present.
	Engaging Multimedia: More than 2,000 photos, videos, maps, charts, and tables captivate students, educators, and researchers through an enriching multimedia experience.
	Timeline: A detailed timeline calls out important historical events from 4 million B.C.E. to the present. The sections include Prehistory and Antiquity; African Kingdoms; Exploring Africa, Exporting Africans; Abolition and Emancipation; Color Line and Colonialism; Civil Rights and Independence; and Blacks Worldwide.
	Africana on Camera: Well-known personalities from different fields appear in videos that present a range of important topics about African and African-American history and culture: Kofi Annan, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Anthony Appiah, Maya Angelou, and others.
	Historical Sites of Africa: Six video excerpts allow users to travel through the African continent. This rare footage from the upcoming PBS and BBC documentary series hosted by Gates provides a unique perspective and educational focus on Timbuktu, ancient Nubia, Ethiopia, the Swahili coast, the Slave Coast of Ghana and Benin, and Great Zimbabwe.
	Captivating Virtual Tours: Users can take an interactive visual tour through six locations noted for their historical significance to African history. Tours include the slave castle on Gorée Island, Senegal; Harlem, USA; and Paris, France.

Minimum System Requirements

	Intel486^TM DX/50 MHz processor
	Microsoft Windows 95/ 98 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0
	8MB RAM for Windows 95; 16MB for Windows 98 and Windows NT Workstation
	30MB of available hard disk space
	2X CD-ROM drive
	Super VGA 256-color monitor supporting 640 X 480 resolution
	Local bus video with 1 MB of VRAM
	Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device
	Sound card with speakers or headphones
	To use Encarta Research Organizer, 5MB of additional hard disk space

Related Links

Encyclopedia Africana, the project begun by Dr. DuBois, is alive and struggling for support at check them out at:
http://www.ulbobo.com/eap/index.html

Microsoft Press Release
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/7-30africana.htm