TABLE OF CONTENTS
THANKS
SUMMARY
PRELIMINARY NOTE
FOREWORD
I. QUEENS OF AFRICA
Anne Zingha, Queen of Angola – 17th century
Tassin Hangbe, Queen of Dahomey – 18th
Ndete Yalla, Queen of Walo, Senegal – 19th
Ranavalona III, last queen of Madagascar – 19-20th
II. WOMEN OF POWER AND INFLUENCE
Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt – 1400 B.C.
Queen Kassa – Empire of Mali – 14th
Malan Alua, princess of Sanvi Kingdom – Ivory Coast – 19th
Madam Tinubu, Nigerian businesswoman, activist and politician – 19th
LIST OF PICTURES
III. ENSLAVED WOMEN RESISTANCES AND ANTI-COLONIALIST FEMALE FIGHTERS
Al Kahena, a Berber resistant to the Muslim conquest – 7th
Senegalese fighters against Muslim slavery – 19th
Solitude la mulâtresse, a Guadeloupean freedom fighter – 19th
Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Black American people – 19th
Sarraounia Mangou, a heroin of Niger, facing the French colonial conquest – 19th.
Yaa Asantewaa, leader of the last anticolonial rebellion of Ghana – 19-20th
IV. PROPHETESSES AND MESSIANIC MOVEMENTS
Kimpa Vita, known as the Congolese Joan of Arc – 18th.
Nongquause, and the tragedy of the Xosas – South Africa – 19th
Nehanda, anti-colonialist prophetess of Zimbabwe
Alice Lenshina, founder of the Lumpa church in Zambia 20th.
V. WARRIORS
The Amazons of Dahomey – 17-19th.
VI. PRINCELY ROMANCES
Yennega, the Amazon from Upper-Volta – 12th.
Salou Casaïs, a princess of Gao and Anselme d’Isalguier, a gentleman from Toulouse: A French-Malian romance in the 15th century
VII. VICTIM
Saartjee Baartman, known as Hottentot Venus, victim of European racism – 19th.
VIII. MOTHERS OF HEROES
Sogolon Kedjou the hunchback, mother of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the empire of Mali – 13th.
Nandi, Shaka’s mother, the king of the Zulus – 19th.