[PDF] Queen Nzinga eBook

Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674237447

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One of history’s most multifaceted rulers but little known in the West, Queen Njinga rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Today, she is revered in Angola as a heroine and honored in folk religions. Her complex legacy forms a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.

Author : Moses L. Howard
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939423405

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Nzinga, in history and legend, is a brilliant leader during a time of violent upheaval. This fictional biography brings to life the Angolan culture in a flourishing African kingdom, now lost, where early explorers' maps of West Africa call out: "Here reigned the celebrated Queen Nzinga!"

Author : Pat McKissack
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439112109

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Presents the fictional diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.

Author : Amina Phelps
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781949303100

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I Am Royalty a series created to tell the stories unheard presents, I Am Queen Nzinga: The Warrior Queen. The story of a young girl that rose to power to fight for the freedom of her kingdom.

Author : Sylvia Serbin
Publisher : United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Angola
ISBN : 9789231001147

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"Njinga Mbandi (1581-1663), Queen of Ndongo and Matamba,defined much of the history of 18th century Angola. A dept diplomat, skillful negotiator and formidable tactician, Njinga resisted Portugal's colonial designs tenaciously until her death in 1663."--Cover, page

Author : S. Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0230602118

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In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.

Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0190238747

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This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of "important men"--A British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country "gentleman," and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter.--Publisher description.

Author : David Birmingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190271302

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David Birmingham begins this short history of Angola in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the 19th century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labour. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, white political convicts and black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbour city of Luanda which grew to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labour was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan labourers to produce sugar-cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the 20th century this wealth was supplemented by Congo copper, by gem-quality diamonds, and by off-shore oil. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations.