{"id":136,"date":"2017-04-03T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:39:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-31 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/heywoodnjingablog.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/linda-and-njinga-bust-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"linda-and-njinga-bust-477x636\" width=\"323\" height=\"431\" \/>About\u00a0<\/b><b>Njinga:\u00a0<\/b>Queen Njinga ruled over what is now Angola between 1624 and 1663.\u00a0 She achieved many significant things during her reign, was a skilled diplomat and negotiator, known to heads of state and the Catholic Church in Europe.\u00a0 With her military and diplomatic nous, she fended off the Portuguese merchants and soldiers intent on capturing land and slaves from her control.<\/p>\n<p><b>About the\u00a0<\/b><b>Book:\u00a0<\/b>This biography weaves together the strands of Njinga\u2019s life using a range of primary sources in several languages.<\/p>\n<p><b>About the\u00a0<\/b><b>Author:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/faculty\/linda-heywood\/\">Linda Heywood<\/a>\u00a0is Professor of History\u00a0 and African American Studies at Boston University, where she has been teaching and researching since 2003.\u00a0 Before arriving at BU she was a professor at Howard University.\u00a0 She is a world-renowned historian of modern Africa and the history of the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Heywood\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<em>Contested Power in Angola\u00a0<\/em>(2000), editor of and contributor to\u00a0<em>Central Africans Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora\u00a0<\/em>(2002)<em>,<\/em>\u00a0co-author with John Thornton of\u00a0<em>Central African, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America\u00a0<\/em>(2007)<em>,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0 co-editor of<em>\u00a0African Americans in U. S. Foreign Policy: from the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama\u00a0<\/em>(2015)<em>.\u00a0<\/em>She has contributed articles on African history and genealogy to the<em>\u00a0Huffington Post\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0The Root,<\/em>\u00a0and has consulted on several museum exhibitions and television programs.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanevolution2019.com\/about\/volunteer-leadership\/historian-advisory-council\/dr-linda-m-heywood\/\">Linda Heywood CV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #666666; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About\u00a0Njinga:\u00a0Queen Njinga ruled over what is now Angola between 1624 and 1663.\u00a0 She achieved many significant things during her reign, was a skilled diplomat and negotiator, known to heads of state and the Catholic Church in Europe.\u00a0 With her military and diplomatic nous, she fended off the Portuguese merchants and soldiers intent on capturing land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10224,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}