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Nzinga: African Warrior Queen Paperback – August 18, 2016

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Across the savannah and into the green mountains, people shouted her name:“Nzinga, Nzinga, Child of the Flame!” “Nzinga, Daughter of the Old Ngola, Savior of Ndongo!”

In the governor’s palace Luanda, the Portuguese courtiers whisper in shock: A woman!Sent to make a treaty with the invaders, Nzinga of Angola is swept into world history, a generation after Elizabeth I ruled England. For forty years, Queen Nzinga fights to destroy the imperial colonists who seek to enslave her people.

This fictional biography delivers exhilarating adventure and passionate stories of friendship, love, and family. The child Nzinga learns the ways of the ancestors through griots’ songs. She studies the wisdom and warrior ways of her father, the old Ngola. The adult Nzinga, now queen, leads with brilliance during a time of violent upheaval. As a warrior, she inspires a distressed people to resist brutality and betrayal.

Luminous storytelling brings to life the Angolan culture in a flourishing African kingdom, now lost, where early maps of West Africa call out: “Here reigned the celebrated Queen Nzinga!”
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  1. Print length
    308 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    August 18, 2016
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.77 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1939423406
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1939423405
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Thoroughly researched, the book includes a useful list of characters, some of the author's own notes on the text, as well as some further reference materials for those who wish to know more about this unapproachable queen. -- Kirkus

What Howard does well is create characters withincredible depth that flesh out the fragments of facts and myths surroundingher existence. His story includes not only the devotion and dedication offamily and friends, but also the human intrigues of living with a people whoare occupiers as well as the culture, family and times in which she lived." - Portland Book Review

"The amazing essence of this novel...concerns the communication of the women around Nzinga, their sharing of joys and sorrows, their ability to feast, work, and strategize with perfect balance. Their world is depicted as a celebration of life and a supernatural belief fleshed out in their devotion to each other and their Ngola." - Historical Novel Society

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jugum Press (August 18, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939423406
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939423405
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.77 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

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Moses Leon Howard is an American writer and educator who has been writing for children and adults for fifty years. A retired dean of a community college, biology teacher, assistant high school principal, and counselor/mentor for students at risk, he lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Mr. Howard has written four novels, three children's books, and numerous short stories, and a fictional biography about Nzinga Mbande, a woman who ruled for forty years in seventeenth century Angola.

In addition to his career as an educator in the U.S., Mr. Howard served as a Fulbright Fellow in Africa and spent ten years training medical technologists and preparing secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda.

Mr. Howard has also published children's books under the pen name, Musa Nagenda, including "Dogs of Fear" and "The Ostrich Egg Shell Canteen."

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"...The story is rich in African history and culture. As an African American Woman Nzinga inspires me. As a woman she inspires me also." Read more

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  • Terry S. Nelson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating story
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2021
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    This is a fascinating novel about a historical African ruler, who defended her country (Angola) against the Portuguese during the slavery days. It’s good to see African history reborn in a well written book like this. Well done...
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  • Jeremy
    5.0 out of 5 stars An educational and interesting read.
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    A good book to read if you want to learn about African history, fight for survival and the intrigues of war. This book portrayed Angola’s history in the form of a novel, that keeps you wanting to turn the next page to learn more. A good an interesting read from beginning to end.
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  • Orcalover
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016
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  • Joseph F. Towns III
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intertextuality on My Mind
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2016
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    As an active reader of Moses L. Howard's Nzinga - African Warrior Queen, I felt a compulsion to establish links between Nzinga, the text as I read it, and other non-fictional and fictional text I've read in the past. I took my cue from Moses himself who, apparently, consciously and unconsciously drew upon a fairly wide range of readings as part of the act of writing. I'm slightly at odds with the Kirkus Review characterization of Nzinga as simply biographical fiction. In my view, Moses has used actual historical events as a basis for a fictionalized narrative, hence, the portmanteau, 'faction,' which is a blend of fact and fiction, a hybrid genre popularized by the late Alex Haley's "Roots" during the 1970s.
    Whilst reading Nzinga, I was happily plunged into a web of textual relations and a network of other texts. Obviously, at the heart of this web and network was Queen (King) Nzinga's demonstration of courage, and above all, extraordinary intelligence, in the face of a Portuguese colonization of Angola and the Atlantic slave trade. When Moses matter-of-factly introduces Chatembo, daughter of Sufalu and Nzinga's friend, as a medium, as well as Musungu, a spiritual medium and master of iron making and weapons, and finally, Sufalu, a soothsayer, or seer characterised as the "arm of Ngola" (Angola) -- he introduces African spirituality known in the West by such scholars as the late Janet Oppenheim as other world spiritualism or mediums: the men, women, and children who claim to function as channels of communication between the living and the dead.
    This evokes text from Rebirth African Art Gallery and Yoruba Mask History in which it is asserted Yoruba mask bearers appearing at funerals are believed to embody the spirit of the deceased. These maskers are thought to have the power to communicate with the dead; Yoruba people believe that when they die, they enter an ancestor realm or a spirit world from where they have influence and power on earth. There are many human cultures and religions that avow a belief in an afterlife, not to mention ancient Nubian pharaohs and the Dogon people of Mali, but a particularly striking example of intertextuality is in Sterling Stuckey's Slave Culture in which African Americans as former slaves express faith in the continuing influence of the dead on the living which is as great as their faith that the living influence the dead: "Anybody knows that dying ain't nothing. We going to miss you bad, but we'll meet you on t'other side, Buddy. We'll do that sure's you born." Western science is expected to catch up with the rest of the world in the near future.
    Clearly, Moses has produced a rich set of layered characters that feel like real people and a protagonist, Queen (King) Nzinga, with whom readers can connect on an intellectual and an emotional level. She embodies the classic case of an African woman who succeeds in a heavily male dominated patriarchal world. What's absolutely astonishing is how she uses language and mind, sheer intelligence, to overcome challenges and difficulties in her determination to defeat her enemies. Nzinga, rightly so, is likened to heroines like Joan of Arc and Boudicca, a Celtic queen who led a rebellion against the occupying Roman forces in Great Britain. Notwithstanding, intertextually, I would follow Herman Melville's creative characterization process by likening her to Ya Asantewa, an Ashanti queen who led the resistance to British colonial rule in Ghana. Writing of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, in Death of Benito Cereno, Sterling Stuckey writes: "When the crew of the Bachelor's Delight attempts to repress the Africans, the women raise "a wailing chant, ... "Their songs inspired 10 Ashanti warriors on board the San Dominick to acts of military valour and the sharpening of their hatchets ..."The African women on board display an instinct to preserve the race at all cost -- to do what is necessary for the slaves on the San Dominick to survive. It was unimaginable that Africans could take over a slave ship from Europeans, but not for Melville who had read writers like Mungo Park, who did not underestimate African intelligence.
    Finally, Moses offers his reader an African perspective of the Atlantic slave trade. There was trickery and deceit by the Portuguese in using other Africans to entice Nzinga's father to trade in slaves. There was the use of pombeiros, Portuguese mulattos, whom some thought were slave traders, and who disguised their trade at the market by offering beads, trinkets, and other goods, which they exchanged for ivory, skins, Congo silver and gold. There was the use of Portuguese priests to sire children with Angolan women and in turn become slave traders. The best teaching experience of my entire career was teaching Angolans in southern Africa. My learners taught me that during the Atlantic slave trade, Angolans developed a cognate word for Angolans who had fallen victim of the slave trade. The linguistic and cultural response was: nobody will know his or her names. My learners shared another African perspective of the Atlantic slave trade: many Africans sold into slavery by other Africans were in actual fact prisoners of war. Moses L. Howard's book Nzinga conjured memories of this excitingly rich African pedagogical experience.

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  • deborah j brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Noble, honor, grace
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019
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    I love reading about queens. So I read Nzinga The Warrior Queen. Destine for a life of luxury. Her brother Mbande was to be king one day. He was the kings only son. Nzinga proved to be more suitable for the position.

    The story is rich in African history and culture. As an African American Woman Nzinga inspires me. As a woman she inspires me also.
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  • Belle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nzinga: a must read
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2016
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    Lyrical, evocative writing gives this rarely heard story a magical quality. In this historical novel of a powerful African queen, Howard brings us a peek inside Nzinga's unexpected rise to power in a male dominated culture. Her story is compelling. There is a message here for today's warrior women.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Huge fan of African sagas!!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2016
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    Great story! Enjoyed every page. Writing is excellent, story line was good but wish there more continuity on her life.
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  • Wayne Turmel
    4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story not enough have heard
    Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2017
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    This story hasn't been heard by enough people, not even history geeks like me. The story is a bit too full of individual episodes to hang together but those episodes are fascinating and the author's descriptions paint a terrific picture of time and place.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in Australia on December 21, 2016
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    Great read - fast moving storyline - characters well rounded - captured the hierachy of ancient African tribal life -
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  • Christine Boos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in Germany on October 22, 2023
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    Definitely one of the most interesting and compelling novels I have read so far this year!
    Everything that appeals to me in a historical novel was to be found here: the life of a woman, not well-known but who achieved so much considering the time period (16th century), a culture much foreign to me (Angola), and a historical background I had very little idea about. I was much impressed by the philosophy of Angolan people' s lives, religion, politics at the time where women did not have much power at all. Nzinga surpassed all concepts but she had to fight hard to reach her level (literally and figuratively speaking)...
    Nzinga was an impressive woman, warrior and queen. Highly recommended!
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