Concubines And Power: Five Hundred Years In A Northern Nigerian Palace
The monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, was built circa 1500 and is today inhabited by more than one thousand persons. Historically, its secluded interior housed hundreds of concubines whose role in the politics, economics, and culture of Kano city-state has been largely overlooked. In this pioneering work, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell...more
Paperback, 276 pages
Published
November 15th 2004
by University Of Minnesota Press
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