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The Kingdom of Carthage
Hannibal Barca was a Carthaginian General born in 247 BC in what is today Tunisia. During the First Punic War between 264 and 241 BC his father, Hamilcar Barca, was a prominent Carthaginian Leader. Hannibal Barca is said to be one the greatest military leaders and a great tactician commander in the history of world.
Hannibal had eight thousand Special Forces, 12 thousand cavalries and 1000 African war-elephants. Hannibal played his strategic plans and captured large parts of Spain, France and Italy reaching to the foot steps of the Roman Empire.
The Queen of Sheba
Makeda (Queen of Sheba) is well known for her beauty, wealth, diplomatic and intellectual skills, who tested King Solomon of Israel with riddles.
She was and still is a prominent figure in the ancient texts of Africa, Sheba was an ancient name for the Abyssinia kingdom in the Red Sea which is today modern day Ethiopia and
Yemen. In Ancient Africa, Ethiopia was also known as Kush, Aksum, Abyssinia and Sheba.
The Old Testaments
According to the Bible in the Book of 1 KINGS Chapter 10 Verse 1 to 3 it reads "Now when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name Lord, she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stone; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. So Solomon answered all her question; there was nothing so difficult for the king that he could not explain it to her.
The Mali Empire
Mansa Musa was a fourteenth century Emperor of the Mali Empire he was well known to the world outside of Africa, a great political figure who is known for his powerful as well as his extensive riches.
In 1324 Mansa Musa introduced himself to the rulers of the Middle East and the rulers of Europe. His leadership of the Mali Empire stretched across two thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake of Chad and including Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad.
Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms
In the 17th century of Angola, Nzinga Mbande was a ruthless warrior, skilled negotiator, an excellent hunter and a powerful African ruler of Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms. Nzinga was born to Ngola Kiluanji sometime around 1581 in the kingdom of Ndongo, a Mbundu-speaking people in south-eastern of Africa.
In 1617 a Portuguese settler Correia de Sousa the then new Governor of Luanda decided to begin an aggressive campaign against the kingdom of Ndongo. The Governor's troops were sent to invaded the Kingdom of Ndongo and forced the King Ngola Mbandi (the brother of Nzinga) to flee from the area.
In addition, thousands of Ndongo people were taken prisoner by Portuguese troops as they attacked many of their old trading partners in order to further their goal. The King Ngola sent his sister Nzinga to negotiate a peace treaty in 1621, which she did it successfully but the Governor of Luanda did not honour the peace treaty.
Conclusion
The Central African coast were threatened by the Portuguese to attempt to colonize Angola. She thought it would be beneficial to work together the Dutch to pit them against the Portuguese in order to slow down their advancement. Mbande resisted the Portuguese invasion for 30 years and until her death at age of 82.
The Kingdom of Kush
Amanirenas was a Queen of the Kingdom of Kush from 40 BC to 10 BC, She is one of the most famous Kandakes "Line of Queens" because of her role in leading Kushite armies against the Armies of Rome in a war that lasted five years from 27 BC to 22 BC to which she expelled the Romans from her territories "Egypt and Sudan"
It is said that Amanirenas was one of greatest warrior Queen in African History as she is described as a brave Leader who was blind in one eye. When the Kushites attacked the Roman armies in Egypt under the leadership of Gaius Petronius they were driven out of the land and the Romans had to establish a new frontier at Hiere Sycaminos (Maharraqa).
The Kingdom of Nubia
Queen Amanishakheto of the Nubian Kingdom is well known for defeating the Roman army when Emperor Augustus of Rome broke a peace treaty and sent his troops to conquer Nubia. She was also known to be an extremely wealthy and powerful Leader and a great pyramid builder her tomb is located at Meroe the old ancient capital of Nubia.
