Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
A new book and exhibition tell the story of medieval Saharan Africa and how it made history.
Kathleen Bickford Berzock is associate director of curatorial affairs at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. She is the author of For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection and the coeditor of Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display.