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Verónica I of Matamba

Queen Verónica of Matamba, which was situated in modern day Angola, reigned from 1681 after the death of her brother Ngola Kanini.

Leonor Nzinga a Nzala

Nzinga a Nlaza was the principal wife (ne mbanda) of Nzinga a Nkuwu, ntotila ntinu nékongo and Ngangula a Kongo in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century.

Zewditu

Ethiopian empress of the 1910s and 1920s

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).