Queen Nzinga During The 1500's

In letters written by the Manikongo, Nzinga Mbemba Afonso, to the King João III of Portugal, he talks about that the resources coming in through the merchants is what is making the trading successful. He requests the King only send missionaries and not send anymore merchandise.The letter reveals the anger and frustration between the African residents and the merchants. The African residents did not feel like they were being treated right and that they could have been treated a lot fairer then they were at the moment. This problem at the time was the beginning of racism between Europeans and African people. The Europeans felt they were superior to the Africans and thought they could treat them in a bad way because of that. Countries would try

The predecessors of many Angolans moved from different parts of Africa much sooner than the arrival of the first Portuguese in the late 1400s. By the time of the Portuguese’s landing in Africa, the Kongo Kingdom was already founded in the northwestern part of modern day Angola. The first Portuguese to explore the Congo River had many intentions. They planned to bring religion, to promote European ideas of civilization, to find and use resources, and eventually to build up the slave trade. By the mid-1400s, the Kongo Kingdom was the most influential of the states located along Africa 's Atlantic coastline. The kingdom had been founded in the late 1300s by a party of Bakongo, which is the plural for Kongolese individuals. These Bakongo had ventured south of the Congo River into northwestern Angola. The Bakongo then defeated the local population and built the capital city of Mbanza Kongo, which translates as

Hailing from the African state of Ndongo and born in 1581 during the start of Luandan disagreement with Portuguese settlers (Toler 265), Queen Nzinga of the African Mbundu tribe stood up for her country and reestablished power over her people. Nzinga came in a time period that needed her. She got her country of Matamba (present day Angola) equal, both economically and socially, to the Portuguese. In order to do this, Nzinga took measures to place herself in the right position to eventually seize rule and steer her country in the right direction, even though it prompted a steady flow of opposition from her enemies. These initial enemies included the Imbangala tribes and irritated Portuguese Settlers, both of which she succeeded in

"Clearly, turmoil, victimization, and disappointment are themes that have pervaded Angola's history, especially since the arrival of the Europeans in the fifteenth century" (Collelo xxi). "In 1576, in effective control of the countryside and facing no organized Kongo opposition, the Portuguese founded the town of Luanda, in effect establishing the colony of Angola" (Bender 24). After the Portuguese began reaching the interior, they soon appointed royal governors who tried to impose their ideas and beliefs upon the people (Halladay 82). Many African leaders resisted this foreign rule and the Europeans only managed to "establish insecure footholds along the coast" (Collelo 9).

In the first 100 years of colonial Australia women of all status and race were a marginalised segment of society; considered inferior to and for the use and support of men (Summers, 1975), (Dixon,1999). It is not surprising therefore that historical accounts of women’s activities between 1788 and the late 1800’s, whether white, black, convict, or free, are much less documented than those of men. The accounts that have been recorded, however, point to women from substantially different ages, cultural backgrounds, education, health, social stations, and personal histories holding various amounts of power (or lack of) and acting within varied and fluid physical and social environments (Macintyre, 2009), (SBS, 2012). In this short essay we will present a very superficial account of these women’s experiences.

Miss Ng. In this essay, I will be covering about her physical, cognitive, psychological and

Princess Anne Cavaliers headed into Saturday with high hopes of winning their fourth straight State Championship. Only thing that stood in their way was their up north foes Highland Springs. Many said before this game that Highland Springs gained a lot of pieces while Princess Anne lost some pieces. One thing was still the same for the Lady Cavaliers which was a major factor, Head Coach Darnell Dozier, who was looking for his eighth state title.

with the Republic of New Afrika, and her violent mentality was a bit too extreme for me.

can receive a great education. She is also the first to see the Congolese people as equals,

After she was seized, she had been raped multiple times not only because of her beauty, but also because “she had been sleeping with Tutsis” which therefore meant that she could sleep with the Hutu as well (Mullins 726). The woman had been raped in front of four Interhamwe soldiers as well as a large group of refugees. In the chaos after of the rape by Musema, the woman was ordered to turn over from her stomach to her back and raped by multiple soldiers in turns. Her breast was cut off by one of the soldiers, which they tried to make her child eat (Mullins 726-727). The violence and chaos allowed for the pre-existing animosities to turn into the crime of rape. The act, though isolated, was obviously meant directed towards the entire Tutsi population as a whole. Alfred Musema was a man who often engaged in these opportunistic rapes, which were single episode events (Mullins 726).

Women from the medieval times had clear roles. The women had strict rules to follow by. When it came to marriage, the wives had to submit to their husbands and follow their lead. Women were supposed to be cleaning, stay at home with the kids, cook, make clothes, etc. The women who steered away from these “typical” roles, made very interesting characters. The majority of gender expectations came from the church and biblical history. Since Eve was the cause for the fall of man, there were a lot of anti-feminist feelings. Women were held accountable for the majority of man’s suffering, and were consequently inferior and to be dominated by men. Purity, holiness, and chastity, were all presumptions of women from outstanding role models like the Virgin Mary.

Boudicca came from a wealthy and important family and celtic children like her spent part of her childhood ,seven years, with another family. So by the time she returned home, her family had to have picked a suitable husband. The husband that Boudicca's family "found" for her was King Pasturagas

The rise and ultimate expansion of the Mutapa State owed in part to the decline of Great Zimbabwe. According to oral traditions, Nyatsimba Mutota migrated from the declining Great Zimbabwe and began his conquests of the Korekore and Tavara of the Dande and Chidema areas It has been claimed t...hat his victims were so impressed by his military exploits that they nicknamed him Mwene Mutapa, ‘owner of conquered lands’ or ‘master pillager’, hence the birth of the Mutapa dynasty. He then embarked on an expansionist policy that resulted in the creation of a vast Mutapa empire which stretched from the Zambezi valley into the Mozambique

Ngugi through the depiction of the ideal patriotic women pays great tribute to the African women especially in those dark days. The strength and courage of certain black women is incontestable in relating the fight for freedom. Ngugi through the persons of Wambui and

Nyerere doubtfully, responded to one of his interviewers that; “We stated what we stood for, we laid down a code of conduct for our leaders [in Tanzania] and we made an effort to achieve our goals. This was obvious to all, even if we made mistakes-and when one tries anything new and uncharted, there are bound to be mistakes” (p. 10). With humbleness of heart, Nyerere challenged his effort, while putting the love for his people in the forefront and extended that beyond Tanzania to the rest of African nations.