{"id":5,"date":"2017-02-21T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/njinga-of-angola-africas-warrior-queen\/"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:41:16","slug":"njinga-of-angola-africas-warrior-queen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Njinga of Angola: Africa&#8217;s Warrior Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/heywoodnjinga\/files\/2017\/02\/Angola2011week12-085-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"Angola2011week12 085\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/files\/2017\/02\/Angola2011week12-085-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/files\/2017\/02\/Angola2011week12-085.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u201cQueen Njinga of Angola has long been among the many heroes whom\u00a0black diasporians have used to construct a pantheon and a usable past. Linda Heywood gives us a different Njinga&#8211;one brimming with all the qualities that made her the stuff of legend but also full of all the interests and inclinations that made her human. A thorough, serious, and long overdue study of a fascinating ruler, <i>Njinga of Angola<\/i> is an essential addition to the study of the black Atlantic world.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">\u2014Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of <i>Between the World and Me<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cQueen Njinga of Angola has long been among the many heroes whom\u00a0black diasporians have used to construct a pantheon and a usable past. Linda Heywood gives us a different Njinga&#8211;one brimming with all the qualities that made her the stuff of legend but also full of all the interests and inclinations that made her human. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10224,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}