Queen Ana Nzinga was born to Ngola Kiluanji Kia Samba around 1581 in the African Kingdom of Ndongo. She was one of the great women rulers of Africa, famous for fighting against the slave trade and ...

P. Eagle and operating some-what nefariously out of a yacht anchored several miles off the French Riviera, producer Sam Spiegel decided to film The African Queen with a script by James Agee and ...

Then African Queens: Njinga absolutely needs to be on your radar. Here’s a fun (read: not fun) fact for you: it is still not compulsory to teach women’s history on the UK national curriculum ...

Built in 1912, this iconic steamboat's claim to fame is its role in the 1951 film, "The African Queen," starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. The vessel has a storied history that spans ...

Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield’s twelve-line ode, “On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,”* Queen Elizabeth II returned to ...

In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about the throne reserved for the Queen of ... we document our history, so we did ...

Never this bad, not in Netflix history. Honesty ... be a historical documentary saying that Cleopatra was a black “African queen,” as this season was supposed to be the first in a series ...

After being hounded over her nationality and forced to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen of ... deaf woman in history to win the crown.

“African Queen,” against its actual background. The Technicolor hues come on the screen with the Dark Continent’s natural, soft tints and serve to sharpen the telling of a story that deals ...