Focusing on love's importance to power, Hanson suggests new interpretations of the history of Buganda. She traces an African habit of thought-the idea that people ought to be tied by bonds of affection-to show how people used this idea to knot together a kingdom and criticize co…
"Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at t…
