#Queen Nzinga

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 50: Early Modernish and Earlier 4

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration.This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[blackbrownfamily]

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[lightdancer1]

Wrapping up today with Queen Nzinga:

Last is Queen Nzinga, who like the Kingdom of Mutapa underscores a simple brute truth. In the earlier centuries European empire in Africa had power insofar as it because it suited African rulers with which it made bargains that it do so. If it stopped doing so, the African rulers in question were able to more than defeat them on their own terms, they could and did drive them out. As in contemporary Asia, so in Africa did the first steps of European bids for conquest come to unceremonious failures where gunpowder-equipped African forces proved their equals or superiors in battle.

The true history of European imperialism is a long stalemate of European coastal enclaves backed by invincible sea power no African force could overthrow in Black or North Africa entirely against equally invincible land powers that accepted European power on their terms, blissfully unaware that in the 18th and 19th Centuries European power would undergo the shifts to the machine gun and bolt action rifle and what that would mean for them.

The decisions that stand as such disasters in history's hindsight reflect the awareness of African rulers that Mutapa and Nzinga were typical, not atypical, in wielding power and that Europeans were also aware that they could not bully Africa (or Asia) in the ways they could in the Americas and Australia with societies that imploded from pandemics and then had the bloody cycles of Indian Wars further ravaging the few survivors.

[janrockart]

Ana Nzinga Mbande (1583 - 1663), queen of Ndongo, conqueror of Matamba.

[blackinperiodfilms]

African Queens: Njinga | Official Trailer 

This new documentary series exploring the lives of prominent and iconic African Queens. The first season will cover the life of Njinga, the complex, captivating, and fearless 17th century warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba, in modern day Angola. The nation’s first female ruler, Njinga earned a reputation for her blend of political and diplomatic skill with military prowess and became an icon of resistance.

[maddiealyse56]

Historical Queens of Africa in Movies

Queen Nandi (Mother of Shaka), (Shaka Ilembe, 2023))

Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, (Njinga: Queen Of Angola, 2013)

Queen Amina of Zazzau, (Amina (Netflix), 2021)

[workimages99]

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[afrotumble]

African Queens: Njinga | Official Trailer | Netflix

[rainbowgothdisaster]

im making a list of my favourite women for womens history month idk why i just got the sudden compulsion that i needed a list and women was the first thing to come to mind

[misscaia]

Free Coloring Pages inspired by the warrior Queen Nzinga of Matamba & Ngola which is present day Angola 🇦🇴.

A PDF copy of these coloring sheets are available on my Gumroad page!

If you color any of my pages, please tag me. I would to see your creativity!

[lightdancer1]

Queen Nzinga was one of the great leaders of her time and in history in general, really:

Will be rounding out today with first the Salem Witch Trials, one of the first dissidents in US women's history, and then the first feminist. But first, the life of Queen Nzinga, who shows a blunt rule of the slave trade and the horrors that went with it. Those first generations, as I mentioned in Black history made a Faustian bargain in ignorance of just how high that price they would be expected to pay would prove to be.

Queen Nzinga's generation knew all too well and she spent her life dedicated to fighting injustice and more to the point winning it. Queen Nzinga shows that there were always people in Africa as well as beyond it resisting slavery and that those in Africa who did so could prove extremely efficient at it.

[xxrainbowvibezxx]

They said African princess with Empress Tanya's design. Giving Queen Nzinga. I know her haters are mad as hell.

I'm so in love with the design. Her hair, the headpiece, the gold. She looks beautiful.

I haven't really seen any negative posts about it, which is a good thing. It's been mostly positive. We don't need another "Tanya ugly" discourse.