by Professor Earnestine Jenkins (Author)

Beginning with the civilization of Ancient Egypt, with its mighty Pharoahs and monuments, a fascinating history moves on to the Nubians who were soldiers, scholars, and builders, and the Ethiopians who dominated Northern Africa and the Red Sea trade.

Contents:

Land of the Pharaohs
Egyptian religion
Life in the Nile Valley - "Land of the burnt faces"
The rise of Meroe
A procession of faiths
The ancient kingdom of Axum

Earnestine Jenkins, Ph.D. is the associate Professor of Art History, University of Memphis. Curator of Education: Egyptian Institute of Art & Archaeology, University of Memphis (1999-1998).

Post Doctoral Fellow in Comparative Black History, Organization of Comparative Black HistorySymposium, AFrom Memphis to Chicago to Detroit: Migrating Cultures, Urbanization, and the Emergence of Black Cultural Centers.@ Michigan State University,April 17-18, 1998. Department of History, Michigan State University.

Research and Areas of Interest: Visual cultures and arts of Africa, the African Diaspora, American, and African American social history and cultural studies. Research focus in the dynamics of art and politics in pre-modern Ethiopia; visual imagery of Africans and blacks in 19th century European art and colonialist photography; African American photographers in the American south; American artists influenced by African imagery; exploring the relationship between gender, race, and representation.