Ancient Nubia Now: Meroe in the Black Literary Imagination

Professor Nicole Aljoe, Director of the Africana Studies Program at Northeastern University, discusses the work of Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930), author of the fictional Of One Blood; Or, The Hidden Self (1903). The novel, first published in The Colored American Magazine, based in Boston, imagines the rediscovery of ancient Meroe at the start of the 20th century.

For more information on the exhibition “Ancient Nubia Now” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), visit: https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/nubia