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Gagoangwe  

Judith Imel Van Allen

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Published in print:
08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

mohumagadi (queen or queen-mother) successively of the Mmanaana Kgatla and BaNgwaketse (subgroups of the BaTswana in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, present-day Botswana), was born around 1845. She was also regent of the BaNgwaketse for her grandson, Bathoen II, later a prominent leader in colonial and postindependence politics. Gagoangwe was a daughter of Sechele I, king (kgosi) of the BaKwena, and his wife Mokgokong. As a child, Gagoangwe put out the eye of a servant, and her militantly Christian father, asserting both the biblical injunction of “an eye for an eye” and a certain equality among BaKwena, allowed the servant to blind his own daughter in return. She later became known as the “one-eyed queen.”

Gagoangwe first married Kgosi Pilane of the Mmanaana Kgatla, but in 1875 eloped with Bathoen I, heir to rulership (bogosi of the BaNgwaketse and later married him Gagoangwe was a devout Christian and an ...

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July, Johanna  

Kenyatta D. Berry

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15 March 2013
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31 May 2013

a black Seminole, was born around 1857 or 1858 in Nacimiento de Los Negros, the settlement established in northern Mexico following the emigration of Indian and Black Seminoles from the United States Indian Territory in 1849. In 1849 about two hundred Seminoles and blacks left the reserve without the permission of Indian agents or government officials and headed to Mexico. Nine months later they crossed into the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass. The Mexican government settled the new immigrants into two small military colonies at Muzquiz and Nacimiento de Los Negros. At its peak in 1850 this colony provided a home for more than seven hundred Black Seminole men women and children The tribes of Black Seminoles were a mixture of Seminole Indians and African American slaves fleeing from Florida after the Seminole War This group became famous for their thorough clearing of marauders from their territory ...

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Visesegan  

Edna G. Bay

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08 December 2011
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30 September 2012

high official in the government of King Glele (1858–1889) of the Fon kingdom of Dahomey (located in what is now southern Benin), held the key office of Tononu, a position that is sometimes compared with that of the head wife in polygynous marriages (e.g., the woman who directed all others in the household). Reportedly the king’s favorite, Visesegan was one of thousands of the king’s wives or dependents, all of whom—women and men—were called ahosi. A woman grown wealthy through commercial activities, Visesegan played a central political role in two major internal struggles of the late nineteenth century: the question of which prince would succeed Glele, and the development of appropriate responses to French demands that led to the 1892 invasion and conquest of Dahomey.

In the late nineteenth century an estimated five thousand plus women and a much smaller number of eunuchs inhabited a series of ...

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Wangu wa Makeri  

Godfrey Muriuki

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08 December 2011
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30 September 2012

Kikuyu leader, was born in the 1850s in Gitie village of Kangema Division in Murang’a District to Gatuika Macharia and his wife, Wakeru. By that time, Kikuyu society had evolved into a patriarchy owing to economic changes, particularly the growing importance of pastoralism and the development of ancestor worship, both of which emphasized the role of men. Nevertheless, vestiges of a matriarchal system survived. For example, the 10 Kikuyu clans bear the names of females. Moreover, the Kikuyu refer to themselves as Nyumba ya Mumbi, a woman.

Wangu grew into a beautiful courageous diligent and hospitable woman attracting the attention of many a man However she eventually settled on Makeri wa Mbogo who hailed from Koimbi a neighboring ridge Mbogo was a descendant of the Dorobo one of the indigenous groups that owned this region before the arrival of Kikuyu migrants Because of this background he owned a ...