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...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...
Random House eventually rejected the demo, Appiah said. Microsoft and Perseus Books then decided to jointly fund Encarta Africana...
...Appiah said the disc, which took 15 months to complete, contains about 2.25 million words, more than 3,000 articles by 400-some contributors and an extensive multimedia library of audio and video clips...