Njinga Mbandi
c. 1583-1663 · West-Central Africa (Ndongo/Matamba, Angola) · Early Modern
Queen of Ndongo and Matamba who resisted Portuguese colonial expansion in seventeenth-century Angola.
Portrait: UNESCO · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Birthplace
- West-Central Africa (Ndongo/Matamba, Angola)
- Known as
- Queen of Ndongo and Matamba who resisted Portuguese colonial expansion in seventeenth-century Angola.
Njinga Mbandi (c. 1583-1663) endures among the great of West-Central Africa (Ndongo/Matamba, Angola). Queen of Ndongo and Matamba who resisted Portuguese colonial expansion in seventeenth-century Angola. Across the early modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
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