I am chatting online, via zoom, with Zeinab Badawi, the Khartoum-born doyenne of British broadcasting and President of London University’s School of African and Oriental Studies. We are discussing her ...

“Piankhi was Sudanese and very morally upright. When he defeated the princes of Egypt, he was offered their women as spoils of war. And he said ‘no,’” she says. She also has a soft spot for Mansa Musa ...

But in 728 BC, the balance of power flipped. Egypt had become fragmented and weak, and the Kushite king, Piankhi, took the opportunity to send his armies north, and capture the cities of Egypt one ...