Marked Kabasa

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Queen Njinga

Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba, in what is now Angola, spent decades fighting and negotiating with the Portuguese, who wanted her people as slaves. She led armies into her sixties and is a national hero in Angola.

Date
About 1583 to 1663IX · Oceans crossed
Place
Kabasa · Luanda · MatambaAfrica
Laid out as
A lifeOne person’s life, from birth to death, and what they left behind.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IA king’s daughter
  2. IIThe envoy who sat on a servant
  3. IIIQueen of Ndongo
  4. IVMatamba and the Imbangala
  5. VAllies with the Dutch
  6. VIPeace, and memory

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Njinga Mbande
  • Ngola Mbande
  • Kambu

Objects

  • Portuguese and Capuchin accounts
  • The statue of Njinga in Luanda

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1583 to 1663. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?