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The 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.
"It's a great day for Professor Appiah, Wole Soyinka and myself," Gates said. "The three of us, we believe, have ful-filled DuBois' 1909 vision."
Originally, Appiah said, DuBois wrote to 100 people, asking them to be on the encyclopedia's editorial board. Everyone accepted, except, ironically, then-Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, who said he was too busy.
"I think that it's a good first step, but it certainly isn't a fulfillment of DuBois'
"Without the support of the entire faculty ofAfro--American studies and the board of advisorsof the DuBois Institute, we never could have doneit," Gates said