{"id":158,"date":"2017-04-06T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:34:30","slug":"queen-njinga-in-times-6-queens-you-should-know-about-for-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/2017\/04\/06\/queen-njinga-in-times-6-queens-you-should-know-about-for-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Njinga in TIMES: \u201c6 queens you should know about for women\u2019s history month\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Njinga of Angola\u00a0(1622-1663): She was the queen of Ndongo, an area around the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and is considered the &#8220;Cleopatra of central Africa&#8221; \u2014 whose political instincts rivaled those of Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great, according to the first full-length study in English of her life that was just published,\u00a0<em>Njinga of Angola: Africa\u2019s Warrior Queen<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>by Boston University historian Linda Heywood. According to the new PBS documentary\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4669507\/henry-louis-gates-great-civilizations\/\">Africa&#8217;s Great Civilizations<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0she dressed like a man and insisting on be called &#8220;king&#8221; \u2014 and kept concubines \u2014 and yet was still discriminated against by rulers of other countries for being a woman. For example, she negotiated a treaty with the Portuguese on behalf of her brother while sitting on the back of her servant, who crouched on all fours so that she could look the Portuguese in the eye after they refused to get her a chair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Passage on Queen Njinga by Olivia B. Waxman&#8217;s article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4684843\/womens-history-6-queens\/\">6 queens you should know about for women&#8217;s history month<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>March 1, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Njinga of Angola\u00a0(1622-1663): She was the queen of Ndongo, an area around the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and is considered the &#8220;Cleopatra of central Africa&#8221; \u2014 whose political instincts rivaled those of Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great, according to the first full-length study in English of her life that was just published,\u00a0Njinga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heywoodnjinga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}