Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa

“Chronologically and by theme, Nawando Achebe pieces together the worlds and the worlds and experiences of African females from African-derived sources, especially language, to offer an unparalleled history of remarkable African women who’ve occupied positions of power authority, and influence. In exploring the meaning and significance of names, metaphors, symbolism, cosmology, chronicles, songs, folktales, proverbs, oral traditions, tradition of creation, and more, this book documents the worlds and life histories of elite African femlales, female principles, and (wo)men of privilege.”

Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History at Michigan State University, is the award-winning author of six books, including Farmers, Traders, Warriors and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 and The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe.