queen of matamba

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queen of matamba

Njinga

"the warrior queen"
2012
A biography of Njinga, who fought and possibly murdered her half-brother to become Queen of Matamba in Central Africa during the first half of the 1600s. In addition, she sold captives from other tribes as slaves to the Portuguese so they would leave her people alone and most likely participated in human sacrifice and infanticide.

Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba

2000
Presents the 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.
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