Tag: queen
Queens and Mothers of Afre-Kh: Makeda, Queen of Sheba, Aksum (Ethiopia)
Makeda, the Biblical queen of Sheba travelled from her country in a region of the African kingdom of Axum which extended from North Africa across ... Read More
Queens and Mothers of Afre Kh: Hatshepsut (Egypt)
Hatshepsut and her Obelisks (Imagined by Gencraft AI) HATSHEPSUT (EGYPT) Born in the 15th century BC, Hatshepsut, daughter of Tuthmose I and Aahmes, both of ... Read More
Queens and Mothers of Afre Kh: Queen Amina of Zazzau (Nigeria)
Queen Amina was instructed in political and military strategies (Imagined by AI) Queen Amina of Zazzau in the present-day Kaduna state of northern Nigeria, was ... Read More
Queens and Mothers of Afre Kh: Queen Moremi of Ile-Ife (Nigeria)
Queen Moremi sacrifices her son Oluorogbo to the river The legend of Moremi has been passed down from generation to generation by oral tradition. The ... Read More
Queens and Mothers of Afre Kh: Iyoba Idia, Queen Mother of Benin (Nigeria)
Queen Mother Idia was the mother of Oba Esigie in the ancient west African kingdom of Benin. From as early as the 11th century until ... Read More
Queens and Mothers of Afre Kh: The Warrior Queens of Dahomey (Republic of Benin)
Minos, imagined by Gencraft AI The kingdom of Dahomey, now called Republique du Benin is located in Western Africa, bordered by Togo on the west ... Read More
Queens and Mothers of Afre Kh: Yaa Ashantewaa and the Golden Stool of Ashanti (Ghana)
The Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana West Africa was founded in the seventeenth century by King Osei Tutu I, with the help of his feared Priest ... Read More