Kurmanjan Datka
Kurmanjan Datka, known as the Tsarina of Alaï or the “Queen of the South” in Kyrgyz, was a prominent figure in the history of present-day Kyrgyzstan.
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Ruth Perry
Liberian politician Ruth Sando Perry was the first woman to be head of state in a modern African country, as chair of Liberia’s third transitional government in the 1990s.
Apama II
Apama II was a Seleucid who became queen of Cyrenaica through marriage in the third century BCE
María Nsué Angüe
María Nsué Angüe was a prominent Equatoguinean writer and served as the Minister of Education and Culture.
Embet Ilen
Embet Ilen was a distinguished figure of high birth and political prominence during the Zemene Mesafint period in what is now Eritrea.
Hilda Bynoe
Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe was a distinguished and pioneering Caribbean woman whose multifaceted contributions significantly impacted the region’s development.
Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Toujan al-Faisal
Jordanian television journalist and human rights advocate. She became the first female member of the Jordanian Parliament.
Indradevi
Politically influential queen of the Khmer Empire from roughly 1181 to 1219
Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.