 | Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace Subjects: Women -- Nigeria -- Kano -- Social conditions; Concubinage -- Nigeria -- Kano; Kano (Nigeria) -- Politics and government; Kano (Nigeria) -- History; Human geography -- Nigeria; The palace of Kano, Nigeria historically housed hundreds of concubines whose influence has been largely overlooked. In Concubines and Power, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell us about a place bereft of archaeological work or primary sources. Social forces undoubtedly shaped concubinage, but Nast shows how the womenOCOs reach extended beyond the palace walls to the formation of the state itself." |
