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Netflix's upcoming documentary series African Queens explores the lives of prominent queens of Africa throughout time. Its first season focuses on Njinga, the 17th-century warrior queen of Ndongo ...
Yaa Asantewaa I (c. 1840 – 17 October 1921) was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, now part of modern-day Ghana.She was appointed by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okese, the Edwesuhene, or ruler, of Edwesu.
The study of African women's history emerged as a field relatively soon after African history became a widely respected academic subject. Historians such as Jan Vansina and Walter Rodney forced Western academia to acknowledge the existence of precolonial African societies and states in the wake of the African independence movements of the 1960s ...
The dynastic list by modern historians does not follow that established by the representatives of the Oyoko clan.. The revised chronology and the study of Dutch colonial archives has made it possible for the identification of Asantehemaa Akyaama, who was banished from the throne following a dynastic conflict, and further erased from oral tradition.
Moremi Ajasoro (Yoruba: Mọremí Àjàṣorò) was a legendary Yoruba queen and folk heroine in the Yorubaland region of present-day southwestern Nigeria who assisted in the liberation of the Yoruba kingdom of Ife from the neighbouring Ugbo Kingdom. [1] Moremi was married to Oranmiyan, the son of Oduduwa, the first king of Ile-Ife. [2] [3] [4]
Nzinga Ana de Sousa Mbande, Nzinga (/ n ə ˈ z ɪ ŋ ɡ ə /; c. 1583 – 17 December 1663) was a southwest African ruler who ruled as queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo (1624–1663) and Matamba (1631–1663), located in present-day northern Angola. [1]
This led to Dahomey being one of the leading states in the slave trade with the Oyo Empire, which used slaves for commodity exchange in West Africa until the slave trade in the region ended. The lack of men likely led the kings of Dahomey to recruit women into the army. The formation of a female-only army unit was a retaliation and maneuver ...
The colonial roots of gender inequality refers to the political, educational, and economic inequalities between men and women in Africa.According to a Global Gender Gap Index [1] report published in 2018, it would take 135 years to close the gender gap in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 153 years in North Africa.