African Amazons (TRIH ep 317)
1500 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by anthropologist and historian Luke Pepera to survey female military and political leadership across African history. The conversation opens with the Dahomey Agoji (the so-called "Amazons") and their contested portrayal in popular culture, then moves to an extended profile of Njinga of Ndongo (a seventeenth-century ruler who negotiated with and fought the Portuguese, allied with the Dutch, and reconstituted her realm). Pepera also discus...
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