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AFRICA'S WARRIOR QUEEN - Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen. By Linda M. Heywood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 310. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780674971820).

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Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen. By Linda M. Heywood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 310. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780674971820).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

DAVID M. GORDON
DAVID M. GORDON*
Affiliation:
Bowdoin College
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Southern AfricaAngolaprecolonialkingdoms and stateswomenpolitics
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The Journal of African History , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , July 2018 , pp. 305 - 307
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References

1 On the historical interpretations that Shaka Zulu has inspired, see Hamilton, C., Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention (Cambridge, MA, 1998)Google Scholar.

2 Miller, J., ‘Nzinga of Matamba in a new perspective’, The Journal of African History, 16:2 (1975), 201–16CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Thornton, J., ‘Legitimacy and political power: Queen Njinga, 1624–1663’, The Journal of African History, 32:1 (1991), 25–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See Heywood, L. and Thornton, J., Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660 (Cambridge, 2007)Google Scholar.

5 For a regional contrast of the roles of elite women in west-central Africa, see Thornton, J., ‘Elite women in the kingdom of the Kongo: historical perspectives on women's political power’, The Journal of African History, 47:3 (2006), 437–60CrossRefGoogle Scholar.