#queen nzinga

[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.

#lightdancer comments on history #black history month #african history #portuguese empire #black resistance #queen nzinga

[gwydionmisha]

#Queen Nzinga #Nzinga Mbande #Portugal #Mbundu #Black Women's History

[proletariat15]

#virginiarandolph #samiankrumah #harriet tubman #sojourner truth #winniemandela #Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti #queen nanny #queen nzinga

[janrockart]

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

#muscle #female muscle #amazon #amazon warrior #amazonian #african #queen #nzinga #nzinga mbande #janrock

[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.

#African Queens #African Queens Njinga #Njinga #Nzinga Queen of Angola #documentary #Black in Period Films #Black in Period Series

[readyforevolution]

#blacktumblr #queen ann nzinga #african queen #africanhistory

[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)

#black royalty #black women #black queens #african royalty #queen nandi #amina of zazzau #Njinga #Nzinga #netflix #shaka zulu #shaka ilembe #hopefully there will be more adaptions in the future

[workimages99]

Civilization VI Leaders Pass Launches With The Great Negotiators Pack

#abraham lincoln #Queen Mbande Nzinga #Sultan Saladin #civilization vi #sid meier's civilization #2k games #firaxis games #Great Negotiators Pack #Leaders Pass #noobfeed #Featuring three new leaders including Abraham Lincoln the Great Negotiators Pack is the first of six DLC packs

[royal-diaries-podcast]

#the royal diaries #royalty now #nzinga mbande #Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba

[afrotumble]

African Queens: Njinga | Official Trailer | Netflix

#film #african queens #nzinga #Youtube

[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

#i feel kinda basic bcuz i got these women from other ppl #and so even tho i know that most ppl probably wouldnt recognize the name Queen Nzinga my brain is like 'your being judged' #:/

[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.

#lightdancer comments on history #women's history month #black history #african history #central african history #africa and women's history #black women's history #queen nzinga

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Don’t think too hard. I picked most of these at off top of my head. I mentioned specific beefs sometimes and not other times because sometimes they beefed with many children and it has to be clarified. If you want to fight, or want more nuance, fight each other, and I will reply no further nuance

Thanks.

#Richard iii #Anne boleyn #Louis xvii #napoleon ii #Henry viii #Mary queen of Scots #empress Wu #queen nzgimga

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Angola, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#angola #africa #country polls #polls

[truesaint]

Mama Nzinga aka Ana De Sousa Nzinga Mbande Queen in our African soil

#black art #black books #black beauty #black king #black power #awereness #black woman in power

[transbookoftheday]

Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg

Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the fight for trans liberation

This groundbreaking book—far ahead of its time when first published in 1996 and still galvanizing today—interweaves history, memoir, and gender studies to show that transgender people, far from being a modern phenomenon, have always existed and have exerted their influence throughout history. Leslie Feinberg—hirself a lifelong transgender revolutionary—reveals the origin of the check-one-box-only gender system and shows how zie found empowerment in the lives of transgender warriors around the world, from the Two Spirits of the Americas to the many genders of India, from the trans shamans of East Asia to the gender-bending Queen Nzinga of Angola, from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and beyond.

#transgender warriors #leslie feinberg #transmasc #transfem #nonbinary #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr