Slack offered the composers a selection of 15 or so of the titular “Queens” of African history, ranging from the Kandake of Kush, Amanirenas — who famously severed the head of a statue of ...

Mahdi. Hulton Getty Picture Archive. The Queen's experience of colonial Africa had been even more direct two years earlier when the deposed and captured Zulu chieftain Cetewayo had been brought to ...

Mahdi. Hulton Getty Picture Archive. The Queen's experience of colonial Africa had been even more direct two years earlier when the deposed and captured Zulu chieftain Cetewayo had been brought to ...

Built in 1912, this iconic steamboat's claim to fame is its role in the 1951 film, "The African Queen," starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. The vessel has a storied history that spans ...

In the 16th Century, ruthless warrior Queen Amina commanded an ... stories deserve to be heard. This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes ...

Hardworking but mostly invisible in public life, South African queens have set a course to work together across royal houses to formulate a common vision of their collective contribution to peace ...

Cleopatra is the second season of a docufiction series produced by Jada Pinkett Smith about historical African queens – a celebration of Black female culture long suppressed by Europe and the West.