Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered: The Triumph of the Last Pharaoh Art Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

This light-hearted black figurine depicts wearied church mother resting after a long day of praising the Lord

-Tom Spencer-WaltersProfessor and Chair of Africana Studies Department at California State University

Ifeoma Okoye

trust but don't be naive

Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered: The Triumph of the Last Pharaoh Art Jesse JacksonThe history of Late Antique Africa and the origins of Nubian Christianity have received little attention by Africanists and have been virtually ignored by Africana historians. For Nubiologists, church historians and scholars of late antiquity the story of this ancient African civilization and its conversion to Christianity has been primarily understood as an addendum to Greco Roman classical antiquity thereby positioning ancient Nubia during late