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spooksmcghie · 5 years

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From @spooksmcghie #tbt #throwback #throwbackthursday Me and the wife @QueenAminaMusic rocking out on set of "Shine Tomorrow" music video shoot. Nothing like a woman that supports your dreams. #Grind #spooksmcghie #queenamina #olin #shinetomorrow #marriage #love #rock #rockandroll #themetal #blacklove #union #monogamy#onelove #nobabymommas #thesehoesaintloyal #wivesareroyal #waybackwednesday https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp5S0ATA0af/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d8efzc0eiysa

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sxydredz · 2 years

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Channeling Queen Amina, Warrior Queen of Zazzau, Nigeria. She reigned for 34 yrs and expanded her kingdom thru conquests. Embracing Black History, past, present and future is a lifelong pursuit, not a month long pit stop . . . 📸: @mauricethompsonphotography concept: @mauricethompsonphotography headwrap: @modelsylviah MUA: @modelsylviah Beaded Jewelry: @modelsylviah . . . #blackhistory #2022 #iamedo #potd #photooftheday #photoshoot #photography #africanqueen #nigerianqueen #queenamina #africanwarrior #nigerianwarrior #warrior #african #nigerian https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcmRh5lqwo/?utm_medium=tumblr

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seleosele · 3 years

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AMINA November 4Th on Netflix Cast @mbasitijesse @lucyamehlucious @realalinuhu @clarionchukwurah @degriemmanuel @asabemadaki @yakubumohammed @biba__m @dandarakauye @ogags_williams @bshrdtti @deihlarmusa @generalbmb4pmb @nelson_orah @maryamfulaniqueen . Crew @izu_ojukwu - Director @okechukwuogunjiofor - Producer @okeyogunjiofor and Bede-Nwokoye - Executive producers @peterkreil - 1st DOP @levitaolawale - 2nd DOP @sonofman7x - Editor @telegenic_media01 - Art director Props master @seleosele @sidishaqq - 2nd AD @austindubazi - 3rd AD @dan_chris_ebie - Line producer @luckyoseghale - Production manager @iam_kilali - Costume designer @tejire - Assistant editor @adubazi_p - Medic @mp1_film @netflix @naijaonnetflix @acomart3 . @yabaleftonline @mufasatundeednut @funnyafrica @urbanyooba #amina #theaminamovie #aminaonnetflix #queenamina #netflixafrica #naijaonnetflix #netflix #netflixnigeria #nollywood #nigerian #nigeria #direcredbyizu #okechukwuogunjiofor #africanhistory #nigerianheritage #nigerianculture #viral #2021movies #newmovies #sos #seleosele #propsmaster #sosidealkrewproduction #makingsomethingoutofnothing #oracle . @azuharinze @maimunaabaji @elvischuks https://www.instagram.com/p/CVmnIXwg5M5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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itsyourqueens · 6 years

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#tbt to last saturday performance at @experience_yes Event For Harlem Homecoming Summer Kick off at #ltkennedycenter. We introduced our 2 new Queens 😍😍 they did such a great performance!! Omg!! @_angie.nicole #Queennzigha @bintigladys #Queenamina So many great moments! 👉 SWIPE More pics to come! Shout -out Our Queen @shannonnia #Queennefertiti for being a phenomenal leader and support to our New Queens! Our Creative director assistant @mosaikdream for the love and continued support! And our first Queens who cheered them on! As Your Queens grows, we are elated to be surrounded by such dynamic Queens and Kings! To learn more and be apart of our growing company! Dm or hit our website www.yourqueens.com for more info! #blessed #Yourqueens #africanqueens #royalty #notyouraveragedisneyprincesses #african #firstafricanroyaltybookingcompany

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larascotton · 4 years

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Queen Amina of Zaria, a woman a leader and a warrior. Her biography are legends and folk tales. @zengypsie thank you ❤️ #larascotton #larascottontattoo #nyc #queenamina #leadership #warrior #woman #legend (at Astoria, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAaigqKFo2Z/?igshid=v9wjxsoy02tl

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fameinhistory · 4 years

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Queen Amina of Zaria

Queen Amina of Zaria (also Aminatu; d. 1610) was a Hausa warrior queen of the city-state Zazzau (present-day city of Zaria in Kaduna State). She ruled in the mid-sixteenth century. Background information Full Name: Amina Title: Queen of Zazzau Reign: 1576-1610 Coronation: 1576 Predecessor: Karama Born: Middle of the sixteenth century Died: 1610 Death place: Attaagar Father: King Nikatau Mother: Queen Bakwa Turunku

Biographical history Queen Amina was born in the middle of the sixteenth century CE to King Nikatau, the 22nd ruler of Zazzau, and Queen Bakwa Turunku (r. 1536–c. 1566). She had a younger sister named Zaria for whom the modern city of Zaria (Kaduna State) was renamed by the British in the early twentieth century. According to oral legends collected by anthropologist David E. Jones, Amina grew up in her grandfather's court and was favored by him. He carried her around court and instructed her carefully in political and military matters. At age sixteen, Queen Amina was named Magajiya (heir apparent), and was given forty female slaves (kuyanga). From an early age, Queen Amina had a number of suitors attempt to marry her. Attempts to gain her hand included “a daily offer of ten slaves” from Makama and “fifty male slaves and fifty female slaves as well as fifty bags of white and blue cloth” from the Emir of Kano. After the death of her parents in or around 1566, Amina's brother became king of Zazzau. At this point, Amina had distinguished herself as a “leading warrior in her brother's cavalry” and gained notoriety for her military skills. Queen Amina is still celebrated today in traditional Hausa praise songs as “Amina daughter of Nikatau, a woman as capable as a man.” Also Read About: Ikeji Festival

Queenship and expansion of Zazzau After the death of her brother Karama in 1576, Amina ascended to the position of queen. Zazzau was one of the original seven Hausa States (Hausa Bakwai), the others being Daura, Kano, Gobir, Katsina, Rano, and Garun Gabas. Before Amina assumed the throne, Zazzau was one of the largest of these states. It was also the primary source of slaves that would be sold at the slave markets of Kano and Katsina by Arab merchants. Only three months after being crowned queen, Amina waged a 34-year campaign against her neighbors, meant to expand Zazzau territory. Her army, consisting of 20,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 cavalry troops, was well trained and fearsome. In fact, one of her first announcements to her people was a call for them to “resharpen their weapons.” She conquered large tracts of land as far as Kwararafa and Nupe. Legends cited by Sidney John Hogben say that she took a new lover in every town she went through, each of whom was said to meet the same unfortunate fate in the morning: “her brief bridegroom was beheaded so that none should live to tell the tale.” Under Queen Amina, Zazzau controlled more territory than ever before. To mark and protect her new lands, Amina had her cities surrounded by earthen walls. These walls became commonplace across the nation until the British conquest of Zazzau in 1904, and many of them survive today, known as ganuwar Amina (Amina's walls).

Queen Amina Death

The exact circumstances of Amina's death are not known. The nineteenth-century Muslim scholar Dan Tafa says that “She died in a place called Attaagar. It was for this reason that the kingdom of Zakzak was the most extensive among the kingdoms of Hausa, since Bauchi included many regions.” Drawing on Tafa's account, Sidney John Hogben reports that “Amina died in Atagara, near present day Idah, for at that time Amina had pushed the frontiers of Zazzau south of the Niger-Benue conference.”

Queen Amina Legacy

As the British historian Michael Crowder has noted, after Amina's death Queen Amina Stage ...ruling class Hausa women experienced a steady diminution in their influence and were systematically deprived of their authority and autonomy. The traditional titles and offices relating to authority over women and redress of their grievances have now become nominal or have been discarded all together. Although Amina's success as a ruler did not have a trickle down effect on her female successors, Amina enjoyed a lasting reputation, bordering on legend, as a woman warrior. Sultan Bello of Sokoto wrote: Strange things have happened in the history of the seven Hausa States, and most strange of these is the extent of the possessions which God gave to Aminatu, daughter of the ruler of Zazzau. Queen Amina waged war in the Hausa lands and took them all so that the men of Katsina and the men of Kano brought her tribute. She made war in Bauchi and against the other towns of the south and of the west, so that her possession stretched down to the shores of the sea Beyond her expansion of Zazzau territory, she created trade routes throughout Northern Africa. Additionally, Queen Amina has been credited with ordering the construction of a distinctive series of ancient Hausa fortifications, known as ‘Amina’s walls’, and with introducing kola nut cultivation in the area.

Historical references One of the earliest sources to mention Amina is a map called the Planisphere of Domingos Teixeira, which was made in 1573 and names a place in Africa as “Castelo Damina,” the Castle of Amina. One of the earliest textual sources to mention Amina is Muhammed Bello's history Ifaq al-Maysur, composed around 1836. He claims that she was "the first to establish government among ," and she forced Katsina, Kano and other regions to pay tribute to her. Bello provided no chronological details about her. She is also mentioned in the Kano Chronicle, a well-regarded and detailed history of the city of Kano, composed in the late nineteenth century, but incorporating earlier documentary material. According to this chronicle, she was a contemporary of Muhammad Dauda, who ruled from 1421–38, and Amina conquered as far as Nupe and Kwarafa, collected tribute from far and wide and ruled for 34 years. A number of scholars accept this information and date her reign to the early to mid-fifteenth century. There also is a local chronicle of Zaria itself, written largely the nineteenth century but extending to 1902, published in 1910, that gives a list of the rulers and the duration of their reigns. Queen Amina is not mentioned in this chronicle, but oral tradition in the early twentieth century held her to be the daughter of Bakwa Turunku, whose reign is dated by the chronicle from 1492–1522. On this basis, some scholars date her reign to the early sixteenth century. Historian Abdullahi Smith, however, places her reign after 1576.

Modern cultural depictions The Queen Amina Statue at the National Arts Theatre in Lagos State honors her, and multiple educational institutions bear her name. Amina is the protagonist of the historical fantasy novel Queen of Zazzau (2018) by J.S. Emuakpor, based on her life beginning in 1557 CE. More recent oral tradition has a series of lively stories about the queen, and these have found their way into popular culture. Among them were: Amina was a fierce warrior and loved fighting. As a child, her grandmother Marka, the favorite wife of her grandfather Sarkin Nohir, once caught her holding a dagger. Amina holding the dagger did not shock Marka, rather it was that Amina held it exactly as a warrior would. As an adult, Queen Amina refused to marry for the fear of losing power. She helped Zazzau (Zaria) become the center of trade and to gain more land. Her mother, Bakwa, died when Amina was 36 years old, leaving her to rule over Zaria. Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina Read the full article

#QueenAmina #QueenAminaofzaria

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deusavani · 6 years

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queendollylama · 4 years

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🖤 Amina Tiye 🖤 #queendollylama #aminatiye #queenamina #queentiye #africanroyalty #blackgirlmagic #blackgirl #littleblackgirl #darkskinned #brownskingirl #blackprincess #youngqueen #blackroyalty #dollartist #customdollartist #customdolls #blackdollartist #blackdolls #blackbjd #bjd #yosd #balljointeddoll #harucasting #harucastinggeuru #dollphotography #bjdphotography #dollartist #dollstagram #dollsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B8HBgbPpoiP/?igshid=d33s28j0zt44

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queenflyamina-blog · 7 years

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Pretty Girl At The Trap💋💸. #queenamina. #TalkNice. #thatswhyyallmadhuh😏❤️😍😘#ATLDancer#SeattleDancer & Any City Near You💸✈️ (at Kittens Cabaret)

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rookiemmah-blog · 5 years

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#queenamina #legend #picoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/BykTqKlHqA7/?igshid=1g3kmfzk2zfjr

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spooksmcghie · 6 years

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About to make a #HIT #record in the living room with @essenceofhiphop @essenceofhh @mommybeats @queenaminamusic and myself @spooksmcghie #fun #life #producer #producers #family #love #drums #queenamina #essenceofhiphop #spooksmcghie #music #sunday #funday #playdate #daddylife #hiphop

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consciouscliff · 5 years

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Commonly known as the warrior queen, Queen Amina of Zaria was the first woman to become the Sarauniya (queen) in a male-dominated society. She expanded the territory of the Hausa people of north Africa to its largest borders in history. Much of what is known of Queen Amina is based on information related in the Kano Chronicles. Other details are pulled from the oral traditions of Nigeria. As a result, the memory of Queen Amina has assumed legendary proportions in her native Hausaland and beyond.[1] The modern state of Nigeria has immortalized Amina by erecting a statue of her, spear in hand, on a horse, in the centre of Lagos. #blackpride #blacklove #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #BlackHistoryMonth #africa #africanqueen #queenamina #nigeria #lagos #royalty #blackgirlmagic (at Russellville, Arkansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtlcOFkH8g6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18b4d3faw7au6

#blackpride #blacklove #blacklivesmatter✊🏾#blackhistorymonth #africa #africanqueen #queenamina #nigeria #lagos #royalty #blackgirlmagic

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bushmama · 6 years

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Remember my post with the baby in a diaper with a pile of money. Well here she is four years later. Omi &Tutu she is my ❤

#baby grand #omitutu #aminatu #queenamina #omilade #bushmama

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itsyourqueens · 6 years

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👑👑👑👑👑 #Repost @yourqueens.ent (@get_repost) There is a shift going on, and we feel it... it's time to build confidence, strength and self-pride in who we are and where we come from. That is why Your Queens Entertainment was created - so we can teach about historic Queens/Kings through Storytelling, Song & Dance! Thank you to #huffingtonpost @ariannahuff @essence @elleusa @the.root @villagevoice @news12bk @newsday @beyondclassicallybeautiful and many other outlets for allowing us to share our message! Learn more about us at www.yourqueens.com. Queens 👑 @timmiela @rahaka @eotree @shannonnia @__queenle @mscookielarode @eotree : King 👑 @jodandavid : Creative Director: @ekisfamous Bookings: @hey.osa #africanqueens #africankings #royalwedding #africanroyalty #cleopatra #nefertiti #goddessisis #kingtut #queenamina #queenmakeda #egypt #ethipia #nigeria #willpacker #willpackerproductions #africanhistory

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luckyme713 · 7 years

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We must ensure our queens know we will protect their integrity Asé💯 #queenamina #africanqueens #africaigotyou #melanin

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fameinhistory · 4 years

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Queen Amina of Zaria

Queen Amina of Zaria (also Aminatu; d. 1610) was a Hausa warrior queen of the city-state Zazzau (present-day city of Zaria in Kaduna State). She ruled in the mid-sixteenth century. Background information Full Name: Amina Title: Queen of Zazzau Reign: 1576-1610 Coronation: 1576 Predecessor: Karama Born: Middle of the sixteenth century Died: 1610 Death place: Attaagar Father: King Nikatau Mother: Queen Bakwa Turunku

Biographical history Queen Amina was born in the middle of the sixteenth century CE to King Nikatau, the 22nd ruler of Zazzau, and Queen Bakwa Turunku (r. 1536–c. 1566). She had a younger sister named Zaria for whom the modern city of Zaria (Kaduna State) was renamed by the British in the early twentieth century. According to oral legends collected by anthropologist David E. Jones, Amina grew up in her grandfather's court and was favored by him. He carried her around court and instructed her carefully in political and military matters. At age sixteen, Queen Amina was named Magajiya (heir apparent), and was given forty female slaves (kuyanga). From an early age, Queen Amina had a number of suitors attempt to marry her. Attempts to gain her hand included “a daily offer of ten slaves” from Makama and “fifty male slaves and fifty female slaves as well as fifty bags of white and blue cloth” from the Emir of Kano. After the death of her parents in or around 1566, Amina's brother became king of Zazzau. At this point, Amina had distinguished herself as a “leading warrior in her brother's cavalry” and gained notoriety for her military skills. Queen Amina is still celebrated today in traditional Hausa praise songs as “Amina daughter of Nikatau, a woman as capable as a man.” Also Read About: Ikeji Festival

Queenship and expansion of Zazzau After the death of her brother Karama in 1576, Amina ascended to the position of queen. Zazzau was one of the original seven Hausa States (Hausa Bakwai), the others being Daura, Kano, Gobir, Katsina, Rano, and Garun Gabas. Before Amina assumed the throne, Zazzau was one of the largest of these states. It was also the primary source of slaves that would be sold at the slave markets of Kano and Katsina by Arab merchants. Only three months after being crowned queen, Amina waged a 34-year campaign against her neighbors, meant to expand Zazzau territory. Her army, consisting of 20,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 cavalry troops, was well trained and fearsome. In fact, one of her first announcements to her people was a call for them to “resharpen their weapons.” She conquered large tracts of land as far as Kwararafa and Nupe. Legends cited by Sidney John Hogben say that she took a new lover in every town she went through, each of whom was said to meet the same unfortunate fate in the morning: “her brief bridegroom was beheaded so that none should live to tell the tale.” Under Queen Amina, Zazzau controlled more territory than ever before. To mark and protect her new lands, Amina had her cities surrounded by earthen walls. These walls became commonplace across the nation until the British conquest of Zazzau in 1904, and many of them survive today, known as ganuwar Amina (Amina's walls).

Queen Amina Death

The exact circumstances of Amina's death are not known. The nineteenth-century Muslim scholar Dan Tafa says that “She died in a place called Attaagar. It was for this reason that the kingdom of Zakzak was the most extensive among the kingdoms of Hausa, since Bauchi included many regions.” Drawing on Tafa's account, Sidney John Hogben reports that “Amina died in Atagara, near present day Idah, for at that time Amina had pushed the frontiers of Zazzau south of the Niger-Benue conference.”

Queen Amina Legacy

As the British historian Michael Crowder has noted, after Amina's death Queen Amina Stage ...ruling class Hausa women experienced a steady diminution in their influence and were systematically deprived of their authority and autonomy. The traditional titles and offices relating to authority over women and redress of their grievances have now become nominal or have been discarded all together. Although Amina's success as a ruler did not have a trickle down effect on her female successors, Amina enjoyed a lasting reputation, bordering on legend, as a woman warrior. Sultan Bello of Sokoto wrote: Strange things have happened in the history of the seven Hausa States, and most strange of these is the extent of the possessions which God gave to Aminatu, daughter of the ruler of Zazzau. Queen Amina waged war in the Hausa lands and took them all so that the men of Katsina and the men of Kano brought her tribute. She made war in Bauchi and against the other towns of the south and of the west, so that her possession stretched down to the shores of the sea Beyond her expansion of Zazzau territory, she created trade routes throughout Northern Africa. Additionally, Queen Amina has been credited with ordering the construction of a distinctive series of ancient Hausa fortifications, known as ‘Amina’s walls’, and with introducing kola nut cultivation in the area.

Historical references One of the earliest sources to mention Amina is a map called the Planisphere of Domingos Teixeira, which was made in 1573 and names a place in Africa as “Castelo Damina,” the Castle of Amina. One of the earliest textual sources to mention Amina is Muhammed Bello's history Ifaq al-Maysur, composed around 1836. He claims that she was "the first to establish government among ," and she forced Katsina, Kano and other regions to pay tribute to her. Bello provided no chronological details about her. She is also mentioned in the Kano Chronicle, a well-regarded and detailed history of the city of Kano, composed in the late nineteenth century, but incorporating earlier documentary material. According to this chronicle, she was a contemporary of Muhammad Dauda, who ruled from 1421–38, and Amina conquered as far as Nupe and Kwarafa, collected tribute from far and wide and ruled for 34 years. A number of scholars accept this information and date her reign to the early to mid-fifteenth century. There also is a local chronicle of Zaria itself, written largely the nineteenth century but extending to 1902, published in 1910, that gives a list of the rulers and the duration of their reigns. Queen Amina is not mentioned in this chronicle, but oral tradition in the early twentieth century held her to be the daughter of Bakwa Turunku, whose reign is dated by the chronicle from 1492–1522. On this basis, some scholars date her reign to the early sixteenth century. Historian Abdullahi Smith, however, places her reign after 1576.

Modern cultural depictions The Queen Amina Statue at the National Arts Theatre in Lagos State honors her, and multiple educational institutions bear her name. Amina is the protagonist of the historical fantasy novel Queen of Zazzau (2018) by J.S. Emuakpor, based on her life beginning in 1557 CE. More recent oral tradition has a series of lively stories about the queen, and these have found their way into popular culture. Among them were: Amina was a fierce warrior and loved fighting. As a child, her grandmother Marka, the favorite wife of her grandfather Sarkin Nohir, once caught her holding a dagger. Amina holding the dagger did not shock Marka, rather it was that Amina held it exactly as a warrior would. As an adult, Queen Amina refused to marry for the fear of losing power. She helped Zazzau (Zaria) become the center of trade and to gain more land. Her mother, Bakwa, died when Amina was 36 years old, leaving her to rule over Zaria. Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina Read the full article

#QueenAmina #QueenAminaofzaria

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