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Princess Aqualtune Ezgondidu Mahamud da Silva Santos – Central Africa

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In 1665, Princess Aqualtune Ezgondidu Mahamud da Silva Santos led 10,000 men into the Battle of Mbwila; between the Kingdom of Kongo...

Princess Anta Madjiguene Ndiaye – Senegal

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Princess Anta was born in 1793 in the powerful Wolof Kingdom in modern day Senegal, West Africa. She lived a royal life and had guards ...

History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi

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Zeinab Badawi (Arabic: زينب بدوي‎; born 24 November 1959)[1][2][3] is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the f...

Shanakdakheto (ca. 170–160 BCE) or (ca. 170–150 BCE) Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush

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Shanakdakheto or Shanakdakhete (sha-nak-da-KHE-te) was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, when the polity was centered at Meroë. S...

The History Behind The Emotan Statue (by Uwagboe Ogieva)

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"EDO - AFRICAN WOMEN HAVE BEEN HELD HIGH, RECOGNIZE AND IN SOME CASES DEIFIED. THERE WERE TWO WOMEN RULER IN EDO KINGDOM, NAME...

Princess Olu Pupupu (1530-1560)

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The Osemawe title of Ondo Kingdom was instituted in 1510, when Princess Pupupu, a powerful daughter of the late Alaafin of Oyo, King Ol...

Nana Afia Dokuaa 1817-1835 Ghana

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Nana Dokuaa (1855) was the great grand niece of Ofori Panin. Her mother, Akotowaa, was the daughter of Korama born of a union between...

Maria (? - 1716) Curacaoan slave and leader of slave rebellion Curaçao

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Maria (died 9 November 1716) was a Curaçaoan slave and leader of a slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716. ...

Queen of Pemba (East Africa ?-1679)

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Ruler of Pemba (?-1679) Pemba is an island off the coast of East Africa near the part of Tanga, Tanzania. Durin the 17th century queen...

Yaya Vita Kimpa of Kongo (1684–1706)

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Yaya Vita Kimpa of Kongo dia Ntotela Vita kimpa was born in 1687 in the village called songololo, in the town of Bakongo at the t...