This is Queen Nzinga Mbande, the Southwest African ruler who served as queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba. In 1624, when she inherited the rule of Ndongo the kingdom was under attack from both Portuguese and neighboring African aggressors. She established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Nzingha’s kingdom. In Portugal she gained an ally to help fight off those previously mentioned African aggressors. By 1626, however, Portugal had betrayed Ndongo, and Nzinga was forced to flee with her people further west beyond the Portuguese reach. She died in 1663 and became a historical figure in Angola. In fact the movie The Woman King is a fictionalized story based on her Kingdom.
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