Zeinab Badawi

“When an Egyptian committed a crime it was not the custom of Shabaka to punish him with death; but instead of the death penalty he compelled the offender, according to the seriousness of the offence, to raise the level of the soil in the neighbourhood of his native town. In this way the cities came to stand very high indeed.”
― Zeinab Badawi, An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence