Njinga of Ndongo

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🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Today, we bring you Queer As Fact's first African episode! Njinga ruled the nations of Ndongo and Matamba during the 17th century; was described by Portuguese colonists as "the most powerful adversary that has ever existed in Africa"; and is viewed as hero in modern-day Angola. Source list available here

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer is Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:04.6	I'm Alice.
0:05.6	I'm Irene.
0:06.4	I'm Eli.
0:07.0	And today we're talking about the 17th century African monarch, Njinga of Ndongo.
0:19.0	We have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:22.1	It's quite a content warning heavy episode.
0:24.2	I'm sorry.
0:25.0	Cool.
0:25.7	I see.
0:26.5	We're going to be talking about slavery.
0:29.1	We're going to be talking about war.
0:30.9	We're going to be talking about the Portuguese colonization in Africa, including forced
0:35.0	conversions to Christianity.
0:36.6	We're going to be talking about violence and murder,
0:39.4	including within families and against children, forced sterilization and a possible suicide.
0:45.3	We're also going to be discussing historical misogyny and historical and modern queer phobia,
0:49.5	and ritual cannibalism and human sacrifice. Before we start, I'd also like to apologize for any incorrect
0:54.8	pronunciation of non-English words and names during this episode. I'm sure I'm going to get
0:59.1	something wrong, and I'm sorry. This episode is going to be structured a little bit differently
1:03.0	to our normal biographical episodes where we just kind of go through someone's life and talk
1:06.9	about the queer points as they come up. So I'm going to start with a biography of Njinga,
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