Gabon-Angola: Queen Nzinga Mbandi, the indestructible warrior
Audio 02:29
Queen Nzinga Mbandi, as imagined by Unesco.
Unesco / Pat Masioni
By: Yves-Laurent Goma Follow
3 min
Our series on resistant women takes us to Gabon, to meet the descendants of Queen Nzinga.
It resisted against Portuguese penetration into Angola in the 17th century.
Monarch at 43, she fought fiercely to defend her kingdom against the slave trade.
Advertising
The fighting was so raging that some people fled from Angola to Gabon.
Among them, the Vungu who hid in the Gabonese forest, where they hoped not to be overtaken by the Portuguese settlers.
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Gabon
Angola
Story
Women