Artemisia, named after the Goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, is the only woman Herodotus attributes with the virtue of courage, or andreia, an almost impossible quality for a woman to possess ...

Yaa Asantewaa was a Ghanaian warrior queen, born around 1840, who rose up to lead an army against the invading British. She is the first story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed ...

Although hers was many more in number, as presenter Bridget Kendall puts it, the warrior queen’s undisciplined and ill-equipped men “were no match for the better trained and skilled and well-a ...

Cambride, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 310. Illus., maps, personae, chron., notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 0674971825 Njinga of Angola: Africa ...