The core approach of this volume is that medieval Saharan Africa (referring here to the eighth through sixteenth centuries) cannot be considered in isolation from other parts of the globe, nor was it a lesser partner than those Eurasian regions which have long occupied the attention of scholars.

Berzock, Kathleen Bickford, ed. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Myles Osborne, University of Colorado