Catherine Johnson
British author and screenwriter.
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Zewditu
Ethiopian empress of the 1910s and 1920s
Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba
Njinga, born c. 1582 to the royal family of Ndongo, was trained in both as a diplomat and in warfare during her adolescence. These skills came into practice many times during her reign as she resisted Portuguese colonial expansion into her kingdoms.
Ririkumutima
Burundian queen mother and political leader
Angélica Larrea
The Bolivian Yungas forests are home to the Afro-Bolivian kingdom. At the centre is Mururata, where lives ‘el rey afroboliviano’ or ‘the Afro-Bolivian king’ Julio Bonifaz Pinedo and queen consort Angélica Larrea.
Sarah Forbes Bonetta
The famous princess and goddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Ngalifourou
Ngalifourou was the last Queen of the Teke, or Bateke, people in the Tio kingdom (a region located in Gabon, Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo).
Nefertiti
Queen-Consort of ancient Egypt and religious revolutionary.
Nofret
Queen-Consort of Egypt
Eslanda Robeson
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.