Example sentences for: africana

How can you use “africana” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And there's an interesting paradox here with Africana : Gates is probably the only black intellectual in America with the charisma and clout to get it published.

  • This I find enormously frustrating about a book like Africana . This is why I am puzzled that a man of Gates' abilities wants to do such unsatisfying and such compromised intellectual work as this.

  • So, a book like Africana is bound to get a great deal of use, to be sold to virtually every school, public, and university library in the country, as well as to a number of churches, to say nothing of the private homes that will have a copy right next to the Britannica . (In some more Afrocentric black homes, it may replace the Britannica entirely, that Eurocentric collection of lies, although Britannica has become as multicultural as everyone else these days.)

  • I shall begin my next entry with a discussion of a set of entries in Africana , those dealing with aspects of Philadelphia, my hometown, and a response to David Nicholson's impressions of the book.

  • But I looked all through Africana , hoping vainly they'd spelled his name "MacPherson" or that there was a list of black Pulitzer Prize winners.


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