Word: appiah
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DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. and Professor K. Anthony Appiah conceived of and edited the project...
...idea has its roots in W.E.B. DuBois' 1909 proposal for a Pan-African encyclopedia, Appiah said. DuBois, who graduated from Harvard in 1890, never saw his idea come to fruition because of a lack of funding...
...great day for Professor Appiah, Wole Soyinka and myself," Gates said. "The three of us, we believe, have ful-filled DuBois' 1909 vision...
...Appiah, Gates and Soyinka, a Nigerian Nobel laureate in literature, first discussed the project at Cambridge University, where Appiah and Gates were graduate students and Soyinka was a professor. Gates said the trio thought they had as much of a chance of success as they had at winning the lottery...
Random House, entertainer Quincy Jones and entertainment lawyer Martin Payson eventually funded a demo project. Appiah said Gates called him from a pay phone to ask him what a CD-ROM was after agreeing to that format during a meeting with Random House officials...