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Meet The Queens
Queen Amina Tu
Born in the mid sixteenth century Amina Tu was the Muslim queen of the city-state of Zazzau in Northern Nigeria.
Queen Ndaté Yalla Mbodj
Queen (Linguerr) Ndaté Yalla Mbodj was the last queen of Waaloo (Wolloff) and she reigned from 1846 to 1855.
Queen Cleopatra
Queen Cleopatra remains a popular political figure from ancient Egypt.
Makeda, Queen of Saba
Makeda was a great and powerful queen of Saba (Ethiopia), in Africa.
She is also known as Queen Sheba in the Bible, Queen of Saba and Queen Bilqis in Arabian literature.
She is also known as Queen Sheba in the Bible, Queen of Saba and Queen Bilqis in Arabian literature.
The Candaces of Meroe
Candace was also known as Kentake and did not represent a single queen but a title used by all queens. It meant ‘Queen Mother’.
Yaa Asantewa
Yaa Asantewa was a queen mother of the Ashanti Empire in Ghana.
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut, also spelled Hatchepsut, was a female king of Egypt in c. 1473–58 BCE.
Queen Nandi
Nandi was the mother of Shaka Zulu, who became one of the Zulu kingdom’s greatest kings.
Queen Moremi
Queen Moremi was a Nigerian queen in the kingdom of Ife.
Queen Ranavalona
The First
Ranavalona I (born Rabodoandrianampoinimerina) (also called Ramavo); c. 1778 – August 16, 1861), also known as Ranavalo-Manjaka I, was the queen of the Kingdom of Madagascar from 1828 to 1861.
Queen Merneith
She is believed to be the first woman to rule in Egypt after her husband,
Queen Idia (Iyoba)
Queen Idia was the mother of Esigie, the King of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1550.
Queen Hangbe
Queen Hangbe (or Hangbè, also Ahangbe or Na Hangbe) ruled the mighty Kingdom of Dahomey.
Queen Nerfertiti
Nefertiti, also called Neferneferuaten was an Egyptian queen.
Taytu Betul
Taytu Betul came from an influential aristocratic family, around 1840 or 1851, in Debre Tabor, in Ethiopia.
Queen Pokou
Queen Pokou, or Awura, Aura, or Abla Pokou reigned c. 1750 - c. 1760 and she was the Queen and founder of the Baoule ethnic group in West Africa, now Ivory Coast.
Queen Muhumuza
Queen Muhumuza (Mahumusa), was the beautiful wife of Rwandan King Rwabugiri Kigeli IV
Nzinga Mbande
Nzinga Mbande (c. 1583 – 1663) was Queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo (1624–1663) and Matamba (1631–1663), located in present-day northern Angola.
Queen Dodi Akaabi
Queen Dodi Akaabi also known as Naa Dode Akabi I ruled Ga Land, now in modern day Ghana, from 1610-1635.
Queen Modjaji
Maselewane Modjaji, Rain Queen I, was the Rain Queen of the South African Balobedu clan. Maselekwane ruled from 1800 to 1854.
Sebeknefru
Sebeknefru, (Sobekneferu), ruled as king of ancient Egypt around c. 1760–c. 1756 BCE. She was the last ruler of the 12th dynasty (1938–c. 1756 BCE).
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