Njinga also gained notoriety during this period for her involvement in the slave trade. As a result of the conflicts during her reign, Njinga's forces took hundreds of thousands of captives, allowing the queen to sell nearly 200,000 slaves to the Portuguese.
,C'etais pas elle mais son frère que va ce suicider apres. Sache aussi que malheureusement tous ce que l'occident voulais de l'Afrique étais ses matières primaires vomme encore de nos jours sauf que à cette époque les matieres premières étais des êtres humains
@@baisabel5193 Ek dink jy is reg, al wat die Weste nog ooit van Afrika wou hê was hulle minerale rykdom. Daar is ongelukkig een uitsondering hier, China is op die oomblik besig om Afrika harder te plunder as enige iemand anders. so dis nie net die Weste nie. Njinga het self slawe besit, sy was beide 'n slawe handelaar sowel as die eienaar van slawe. Alle ryk mense en magtige mense in daardie tyd het slawe besit. Dit was ongelukkig maar net soos die wêreld gewerk het.
@@johanvanschouwenburg9459 Vous comparez des sujets de basse caste de son royaume,que en effet servait les hautes castes ,comme en Europe A des gens vendu ,dont l'estimation de vie étais de 6 mois à cause du travaille , Les gens de basse caste du royaume du Ndongo mourait à cause du travaille force ? Les gens au Ndongo ou encore au Congo étais force à se reproduire entre eux ? Elle a vendu des esclaves aux Hollandais mais le documentaire explique bien le pourquoi. L'occident à cette époque prenais l'or en Afrique de l'ouest(Ghana et Côte D'Ivoire) Mais en Afrique Centrale c'était bien des matières vivants que les intéressait. Les Hollandais ,avant de convoiter les terres étais tous d'abord venu pour acheter des humains ,malheureusement c'est l'histoire ce n'est pas contre les gens parce que ils sont blancs ou autre . En effet la Chine viens elle aussi par intérêt.elle viens en ami bienveillante dénouer d'intérêt
@@jamesoakley4570 She was literally the biggest female slave trader of all time, as far as we are aware. Another thing American's like to leave out is that European powers never went to Africa and captured random villagers as slaves. They paid for people who were already slaves, and then sold them in American colonies.
K well after Woman King, I did research before seeing the production - "In November 1627, Nzingha again attempted to negotiate with the Portuguese, sending a peace delegation and a gift of 400 slaves." Oof, so the "no slaves in your kingdom" thing just an overly intense way of saying "you're currently out of stock"?
Nzinga didn't want her people sold. Whst you people fail to.underatood is there was no pan Africanism, she sold defeated rivals kingdoms that would have been raiding her lands like the imbangala, for example.
All that is a lie, if she was fighting slavery since she was a kid how can she sell people, all those are white people's lie, I am from Ndongo... We know the real history... Europe is afraid.
@@chillin5703 there is something in areas called blood debt which means her debt to society gets taken over by other from her blood. so they could ask that relative.
I enjoyed it. My only issue is people always complaining about accuracy when it comes to telling stories of Africans. But the stories of the Kings and Queen's of Europe are always leaving out their faults. Yet u get no complaints
People are always complaining about accuracy regardless of race. Don’t try make this racial or political. This is an African story and Africans have bigger things to focus on than political correctness, wholeness and racism
I don't like the fact they try to imply "black queens" using the name "african queens". It's not the same. Africa isn't a uniform continent with a single race. Africa is populated by arabs, semites, subsaharian black africans, etc... Hell even between "black africans" there is a lot of diversity of races. People from Mali looks nothing like people from Kenia.
Because theyre talking about the indigenous people, not the latter invaders. And black is a race, somalians arent black. And your kind never complains when only egypt gets represented but now you want to complain about african queens.
Ok, so this is an interesting one. It is important to note that real human beings are never entirely good or bad but exist within a spectrum. This show does well to paint Nzinga in a good light. It is true that she was a great leader and an inspiration to many African women. It is also true that she took part in the slave trade and sold some Africans to the Dutch. I would argue that it was a necessity in the time for her kingdom to survive and even thrive, but those are still human beings being sold. My point is if you want to look at her as a role model because of Netflix's account on this story then you are right. But, if you want to look at Netflix's account as inaccurate and not portraying the entire story, then you are also right.
@@vmlksm9 You are very right. We tend to view things in terms of our modern ideas of morality that have taken centuries to develop. I'm sorry if my post appeared judgmental, that was not my intention.
Perfectly said 👏 but to be accurate, it wasn't some Africans. There were lots of Africans sold by here , to the Dutch and Portuguese, because she didn't want her own kingdom and tribe to be victims. She did what she had to do !
@@vmlksm9 it is hard to say exactly where to draw the line because no one is perfect, but I also think the whole institution of slavery is horrendous and even though some of our founding fathers did some great things, I still have a hard time like on Presidents day celebrating because I know they were mostly OK with owning another person and I can't reconcile that in my head. The idea of anyone thinking they own someone is just horrible.
I personally liked the part where she teleported to the mood snapped her fingers and all the actual history vanished from American schools!!! Well done Jada continuing to prove you are as much a talented producer of researched accurate material , friend to your community , trustworthy mother as you are a loving wife to Will! those still buying Jada's gas lighting really don't EVER go look for themselves and never will!
Yes Jada Pinkett. Lets make a documentary about a woman who sold hundreds of thousands of our own people into slavery! I have not watched this yet but Njinga was no hero! She was a monster!
from netflix " there are no slave in my kingdom" in real life Nzinga also established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Nzinga's kingdom ?
This is just a trailer but I can't shake off the feeling that these shows make African kingdoms look more less sophisticated than they are supposed to be. Ndongo sent diplomatic missions across Western Europe. However, the palace and meeting of the king as seen in the trailer looks like something that would have occurred in the Zulu kingdom rather than Ndongo. The Woman King did something similar to Dahomey where Abomey lacked a ditch, and walls of the palace had no bridges, towers and the cannons that were mounted on them. Either way, I hope the documentary touches on Ndongo's martial arts of Sanguar and how Ndongo soldiers were so agile they could dodge arrows. I hope it also touches of Ndongo's musketeers and their ability to build fortifications.
@@Sikandros "Angola didn't even have one University until the Portuguese built one for them in the 1960s." The Kingdom of Kongo built a college around 1619 in the capital of Mbanza Kongo by king Alvaro III.
@@Niani23455 wow a jesuit college for the worship of non indigenous gods built in the same time of colonialism with slave labor money. Kinda weird how that wasnt built 200 years ago before europeans arrived.
@@Sikandros "Wow a jesuit college for the worship of non indigenous gods built in the same time of colonialism with slave labor money." The Kingdom of Kongo were Christians and for your information Christianity doesn't belong to Europe as it even originates from the Near East. It was built in 1619 when Kongo was a free state not colonized. Colonialism came in 1861. "...built in the same time of colonialism with slave labor money." If you're concerned about slave money, show similar concerns to the Portuguese Empire within that same period who built an entire colonial empire in the Americas sponsored by slave labor money. " Kinda weird how that wasn't built 200 years ago before Europeans arrived." Kinda weird the Portuguese didn't have a university before the North African conquest.
There is a great film Njinga, Queen if Angola. Stars an Angolan actress that also won Miss Universe. Film was made with Angola and Portugal and portrays a sincere (as far as we know) history, which is poltically very interesting. This stuff Jade Pinkett is doing is AMERICAN black nationalism, and trying to create a false narrative about Africa. Nobody should take this seriously or as quality film making (but please watch the 2013 film, which is excellent). What is it with americans always wanting to falsify things to bolster their own self image?
U mean Hollywood celebrities? She is part of the black boule class. Not the grass roots black American class. These are two different groups of people.
Naturally A-American women see a Queen whose legacy is infanticide and the mass enslavement of black men as the "greatest woman leader the world has ever seen". Stunning and brave. Roll credits. Lkng live the single mother pandemic.
In theory, wouldn’t that mean that we would have to see a bunch of white people spitting at and calling Ryan Gosling the N-word? Bc that would genuinely be hilarious to see
You would be correct. This is mostly fiction. Njinga was a massive slave trader and most of her battles against the Portuguese and slaving were to keep control of the slave trade herself. Complicated truth would be more interesting and in a way more healing for race relations but are unpalatable in this woke era were victimhood equals power and money.
I really wish they would tell the true story, and not make it political, yes, she was a fighter but she also sold her own people, people who disagreed with her. From Angola.
Yes, she was a queen so it is, but what i meant is that just because she did some good things we can't forget the other things she did which is not that great, many of the storyteller this time don't do research on the full story they sell to the specter
@@breathejuliet390 it's just the fact that most of the writers for this type of movie only show one side of the story, which represents an idea they want to sell, it's never a true story or even close to the truth. I just think that if you want to show a part of history, you should tell the good and the bad, besides i just think there is a lot of slavery movie out there and these people just want to keep people in the past without showing the real history
thats an actual historiclly accurate line. but in reallity it was more meant to mock the portogese, Like "i dont have any drugs" while holding a bag of coke
Nzinga's mother, Kengela Ka Nkombe, was one of her father's slave wives which means there were slaves in her kingdom. They're not treated the way westerners treated slaves, that's the main difference.
Africa had many Queens. The woman King may have focused on one woman... but it was a fictional depiction of the Dahomey a group of Warrior women in Benin. Queen Njinga is a real historical figure. Evidently there is a lot of African history that still shocks people because of the lies the Europeans told to downplay who we were.
I wonder if this will be a series that will highlight other African Queens as well. I watched this series and loved it. This was well done, the best way not to repeat history it to actually learn it!! Netflix great job!
Up to a point. It's missing a great deal of facts. It's very good at portraying her fight against Portugal and her fight against them enslaving her people. Yet, there's not a single word about her selling upwards of 13.000 people to the Dutch. It doesn't really help anyone to share some bits of history if we aren't shown all the facts, positives AND negatives, which is rather common with these docu-series.
@@MrEifer I didn't see her selling anyone in the series. What I saw was her allowing it to happen because she didn't have the man power or the weapons to fight European powers. She fought a good fight but she couldn't win.
@@blackacademy7647 That's exactly my point. You didn't see her selling anyone in the series despite it being documented as fact that she had an ongoing slave trade with the Dutch, selling upwards of 13.000 slaves to them alone, pr year. The series is very good at showing her in a positive light only, neatly skipping all the unsavory stuff.
Its not historically accurate, though. It won't help us keep from repeating the bad parts. And history always repeats itself. Nothing is new under the sun.
Ok, I really had high hopes for this movie . Because I have read several books about Queen Nzinga , and watched several documentary,s about here . Then I realized I needed to dim my expectations because it's a netflix adaption 🤣 I don't mind if the writers are going to be FREE in their creativity , I just hope they don't turn it into some kind of viewer friendly woman empowerment flick . Queen Nzinga was fierce brutal cruel hard , and yes, smart clever and powerful.
@Krasimir Barzilski can't know for sure until I watched it . But seeing how a lot of historical movie's, are being made lately, it's better to have low expectations .
Exactly. When Portugal are Moorish as in Morenos. But then again she was a slave trader and is being depicted as queen 😂 what do you expect from this Afro-American Propaganda 😂
@@brixcosmoshe was forced to be a slave trader as many other kings and queens all around africa, so they could keep their kingdoms. Are you telling she was not a Queen?!? Where does it say that, in your fantasy books in schools?!? 😂😂
Okay guys let’s bring all the truths out since I read this comment. During the slave trade there were two ways of getting slaves one way was capturing random Africans from villages or wherever and taking them back to America or Europe for slavery, another way was buying African slaves on the market. The queen depicted here did indeed sell slaves and participated in the slave trade and did sell around 200,000 slaves BUT to be in particular the Portuguese did not buy slaves from the Queen due to their harsh relations, instead the Portuguese had stolen people and villagers to be slaves in their colonies in Africa and also in South America. The queen was very well against this and wished to stop this. Before this and before she was even queen they had been in bad relations with Portugal, and after her brother died and she had become queen she had negotiated several times with the Portuguese and most times the Portuguese had gotten the better half of the deal. Soon pushing the Queen and several people out into new lands. After partying with the Dutch this is when we start to see where that 200,000 figure may have come from and that is because she had sold about 13,000 slaves to the Dutch per year after the Dutch had kicked the Portuguese out of Luanda and established a directorate that is when the queen wished to establish an embassy in Luanda and further progress the relations with the Dutch. And although she had sold slaves this whole comment is made to excuse the European and Americans participation in the slave trade and actually their version of slavery being so damn brutal and that is chattel slavery, which deemed people private property and nothing more. Although the actions of the queen and all of the world powers at the time were wrong we understand that the times in which this was happening Europe had already been colonising much of Africa and basically stealing villagers for slaves, and although some African nations participated in the slave trade and sold slaves themselves this does not count for the 5 million and maybe more that were forcefully taken instead of bought to be used as slaves in the Americas. People do not point blame at only one party for slavery to make yourself feel better about your nation’s history. The ancestors of the 1500s-1800 do not speak for us and we do not speak for them so learn from their actions, do not take accountability for them. Unless you have bought and sold a slave or been a slave (though ancestral slavery can be a trauamtising aspect to believe that at once you were nothing but property. Even one of my teacher, she had an aunt, and that aunt well she had a mother that was born into slavery. Slavery is not such a distant past it’s only been 158 years, that’s not even to account for the states that did not leave the Union who still had their slaves until later years. Let us remember, do better for the future and create more understanding on why explaining and knowing the full truth of history and all it’s connections matter to not pointing blame at one nation when in fact it’s all their fault for why innocent people were bought and sold, but unfortunately object morality can change over decades.
Njingha also established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Njingha's kingdom. Will we see that part in the show?
White people like you will always find something negative to say, whenever you see a good thing from people of color. You all said the same in “The Woman King”.
@@999oj I am not white. History tells a different story than the virtue signalling movie companies, and the question you have to ask yourself is why they are lying to you? Money. They want your money and to earn your goodwill so they aren't attacked. It has nothing to do with truth or virtuousness, they don't care about you.
00:25 "Slavery threatened to decimate a continent..." While that is true and export of slaves made African development worse of. Most African rules were NOT against slave trading. Slavery, aka enslaving enemy tribes and using them oneself or selling them to Arabs or later the Europeans, was a MAIN feature of African culture back then. Nijinga was against slavery in the same manner that Columbus was a great guy that loved native rights. Most of the economic income and political leverage Nijinga had was via the slave trade. She was very active in that trade and even when she wanted a diplomatic treaty with the Portuguese. She offered 400 slaves for free in good faith. Later she also did similar via offering a military alliance with the Dutch in order to remove the Portuguese by guaranteeing the Dutch access to the slave trade pipeline she was controlling. Njinga probably had love for her nations, but she was a ruler and that looked out for number 1, first. She didnt care what was best for the nation and all this nonsense one insinuate in this trailer. Go read a history book. This female lived a challenging and interesting life, but she was no more anti slave than the founding fathers of USA. I would actually argue she had more in common with the Dixie states tbh.
First of all, there is nothing called African culture, Africa is a continent with vast cultures, and msny of them had nothing to do with the slave or enslaving. Njinga was against slavery when it came to her kingdoms, enslaving or selling rival kingdoms members was not a problem for her.
@@user-ok9oz7ot6d If water is too cold. Does that mean that too hot water is okay and wont cause harm to people going into it? This is a metaphor and me basically calling out how simple you seem.
@@admirekashiri6651 This is what the commenter says. They didn't mention slaves "from her kingdom" they meant in general. It was a normal give-and-take for most leaders. The comment simply says we must not ignore that because it is unconvincing, just like we shouldn't ignore the slave dealing from European or Ottoman states. In just the first few seconds of this the actress says that "there are no slaves in her kingdom" which is untrue. They were just not slaves FROM her kingdom
Good thing! Because I grew tired of the ancient Greece and Romans and Britain docu stuff.. We need Africans, Southeast Asian, Latin American having the spotlight NOW!
Yeah I agree Just don't try to steal somebody else's history Stick with the afro queens and leave Cleopatra alone Where're the real ones? Hatshepsut Nefertiti etc
@@fruity4820 Her role in the slave trade wasn't as positive as depicted the movie. She proposed slaves to the Portuguese in some negociations and the return of previous runaways back to them. She was much more contested by some of her own nobles and lost more fights. In these series she is often presented as unshakable most of the time, losing only a few times. She thrived off the slave trade to rebuilt her army while she became Queen of Matamba. A couple of other things were left out as well.
Nzinga also established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Nzinga's kingdom very vry wonderful.. tell me again how wonderful your " queens" are in africa.. you ignorant monke
@@cia6566 who do you think are the owners of this history? ... I tell you that I am the owner of the this history. My grandmother Mather of my mother was one of the Soba in Malange in this Kingdom... I speak kimbumdo, and I tell you that most of these narratives are wrong... These are European narratives, most of the costumes we still have the colonization did not arase everything... The Portuguese were not alone they got help of the English, Spanish and Germany... Just search for pink map in Africa...!
Just like any other king or leader , the nobles back then used to make balls and stuff while 95% of the population was dying but guess what people still make movies abt them 🙄
Why is this woman being touted as a warrior, someone to be proud of? She was a horrificly brutal woman. Has anyone even read her true history? It's disgusting this was even made..
I haven’t done research on this historical figure or civilization, so if this is based off of facts and truth then it’s absolutely incredible, if that’s not the case then quit turning historical figures into fantasy projects.
@@VandalAudi Then they were not taught how to research. I had a research course while pursuing my bachelor's degree, and two research courses while pursuing my master's degree. If someone presented me with information from Wikipedia I might not comment unless they were in my course, but I know better. Again, anyone can edit Wikipedia. It's not peer-reviewed or scholarly.
@@sharonsmalls6846 tbh, wikipedia a good indexing entrypoint rather than a source. The articles themselves are probably at best second hand information, at worst opinionated "noise", but they do point out where to start looking for more concise data. People just use wiki links to simplify matters in online debates, because,.... well it's an online debate. Lpw stakes low rewards.
@@VandalAudi I was not educated to use Wikipedia in any form or fashion. Also, as a certified legal nurse consultant, I would never deem to look at Wikipedia for anything. I couldn't imagine using it as a source for an attorney. I will search for my articles to use as a reference. Nevertheless, you carry on and use Wikipedia for anything that benefits you.
@@sharonsmalls6846 well, yeah, it doesn't matter what you use to search for your references, but you do use them to search for anything that confirms or backs your argument. Wikipedia is a good start off point to do that, as it is one of the most curated index of sources. Say that you need to write a paper on tracheoctomy related devices, you don't cite wikipedia as your source, rather use it to find which section of Fundamentals of nursing: The art and science of nursing care, that has the concise information you seek (pages 1382-1383 and 1404, btw).
Love Nzinga and her strength but I studied African Studies in University and the start of: there's no slave in my kingdom is the fakest thing. Even her most iconic moment was sitting on a slave to be at the height of a Portuguese that was sitting on a chair (to show both had the same power). She had slaves, slaves were common but she was much more than that. She still represents women's power!
It's mind blowing that Netflix cam do this but wants to us to think Cleopatra is black. Why not focus more onuch lesser known rulers like these instead of doing the hundredth Cleopatra movie?
thats an actual historiclly accurate line. but in reallity it was more meant to mock the portogese, Like "i dont have any drugs" while holding a bag of coke
I’m happy we are started to see more historical “Black movies” but damn at least tell the truth and don’t sugar coat, cherry pick and alter certain aspect to fit your narrative just because you don’t like how dark some of our history is! Don’t make another Gods of Egypt !!!!!
To everyone who didn't get why some people are angry about diversity in medieval settings. Imagine these african kingdoms would have token white and asian characters just for diversity reasons. And when you complain you are a racist.
This video has more dislikes than likes becuase of a multitde of reasons. I am african so i will like it but people do not like to feel like they are being used or decived and if you expect anyone to believe that it was only the women who fought slaver trafikers in that time then your are deciveing yoruselves. Let me tell you this MAJORITY of the slaves that were taken from Africa were sold by Africans. I come From Nigeria and when i was young before i even knew the im0lications of slavery my father used to tell me how his grandfather would and could sell slaves to the oyinbo (white people) when they needed money. it was a lot harder for slaver trafikers to stell whole tribes as 90% of the time they would get surrounded and they would fight back against them. but eventtually they decied to trade with the natives for slaves . so the natives would take unwanted people and sell them. I should point out that most of Nigeria was heavily divied and their were thousands of small tribes that could very easily be dominated at first (1500-1700) My great great grandfather 100% sold slaves and so did a lot of other people during his time in Nigeria and Africa Now im mentioning this becuase the Tribe in this video and the woman king movie both did the same thing they fought well but also sold slaves. Do you know who fought even better for hundreds of years and Never sold slaves. The mossi Tribe. Here is a tribe that didnt even start fighting european slave traders they started fighting in the year 11th century up until the 18th century they fough muslims then christians then eueropeans all in the span of 700-800 years. Yet netflix doesnt think they are worth making a movie about as its not political enough
@NoLabelBrighton yea the problem is african people dont see themselves or their ancestors as slaves so why would any african company make a movie about it
Netflix doesn't Do movies. They by projects, documentaries, comedies,drama. So please do your movie on that Mossi tribe, submit it to Netflix and we'll be watching. And Nigeria didn't exist at the time you're talking.
@@mikegreensberg3316 Mike respectfully your you do not know what your talking about. The name Nigeria may not have existed but the country and the tribes their did. as for making a movie why would i do that, all the documenteries are made by people in hollywood and are based around poltical agenda for hollywood and america. do you think people in africa care about this documentary. No they do not
@@d3po607 You are just contradicting yourself.And I didn't say tribes didn't exist. So if the country existed, then what was the name?? Was it a country or it was different kingdoms with they rulers, kings&queens,and different borders as today? And I'm astonished by your stong statement that"MAJORITY" of slaves were sold by Africans but don't question why the slave ships were there to begin with. Some humans decided to build those slave ships, structured them to carry as much other humans as possible to exploit, for centuries. None of those ships were built in Africa. Why don't you highly denounce those ship owners or they descendants? You could do a movie or documentary denouncing all they schemes but no, you prefer to scream "Hollywood, America have an agenda", like if we don't know it.That's old news. Question: Why don't you use "Nollywood" to make historical movies,documentaries, instead of always the same themes. Stop whinning about Hollywood; create and invest on an instructive Nollywood.
As an African I'm glad that descendants of the African diaspora and enslaved Africans see that we really didn't want them to be taken away and we fought so hard. We were so devastated and felt their absence. Untill today we still feel so connected. 🙏💕💕💕
@@bl8388 *Any LIE or exaggeration to take take the heat off of whyte folks not only enslaving Black ppl, but colonizing and destroying the entire earth!*
Glad to see Jada Pinkett Smith do something useful for once 😭😭😭 this better turn out good. But have a feeling 50 Cent's TV series when it is released will be much better. But will still watch this one
She gave slaves to portuguese and other countries 😂😂😂 what a "leader" and "no slaves in my kingdom" 😂😂😂 people dont know how many africans did slave business...they did it way before europeans came there and nothing changed with europeans😂 it is hard to accept I know but facts are facts
Well at least this time the Skin Colour is right and they got many good scenes. Sadly I do not understand why they let it look like she had not sold many africans into slavery
I'm a single male in Canada, no password sharing here. I was considering a subscription to Netflix, but not if I cannot watch when I want, and WHERE I want. Do you not remember your promotion, "Love is sharing" ? Now, Netflix is no different than the cable company's of the past (ALL of them are gone now). Good luck in the future Netflix, you are going to need lots of it. 🤬
@@Dom-pw2sj eh not really. 1899, Julie and the Phantoms, Sense8, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Anne with an E (I could name more tbh but moving on) were very highly rated shows but got cancelled by Netflix
@@nigelkhan5331 You're wrong. if this was about some european historical time period, no one would care. You see viking and euro-centric medieval shows getting praised (despite being historically inaccurate) yet the moment something afro-centric is made, it's a problem.
@The Loner Coder na it's the fact they bend history to make bad people look good. I would enjoy it if it was historically accurate and not just a political show. Seen it and it just lies about her history making it out to be she's a all loving leader who didn't sell her people that didn't agree with her ideals
@@gamingcells1432 yet you see the same thing when anything black is made lmao. Like people getting triggered over fictional characters being black, asian, or hispanic.
I don't understand why people are upset that people of African heritage want their history told. It always seems to be a problem when the Europeans aren't allies or the heroes in these stories is when they all of a sudden have a problem
I don't think people are upset. It's just hypocrisy, they make her seem all good and that she's against slavery, when in reality she sold people into slavery aswell.
I just put this on randomly so I could sleep, but ended up staying up watching all the episodes because of how well it was put together. I recommend to anyone looking for a good documentary to chill and watch
Fiquei tão feliz por uma série tão bem feita sobre rainhas africanas. Sempre vemos séries de Vikings e os reis africanos não perdem em nada sobre guerra e estratégia.
@@Daron7181 Your pumpkin head is! 'Cause you can't stand the Inconvenient Truth. Keep on portraiting Enslavers/SlaveTraders as heros. Have fun with that, player!
Tao feliz de ver uma rainha, parte de uma dinastia que vivia sobretudo de invadir e escravizar outras tribos, ser apresentada como uma heroina profetizada e salvadora da populacao negra, apesar de nao ter feito nada para acabar com escravatura, pelo contrario, continuou a viver dela. Este "documentario" e um insulto para a historia africana e negra.
I have heard she had a male harem and made them fight each other, cut the throat of her own slave during negotiations to be taken seriously, basically like any man given power. If this is true then I am sorry for calling only men predators,power corrupts. Women just had less reach to it, but if given they would be depraved the same way, also the trans community. Basically being human
Acabo de terminarla, un asco que la presenten como docuserie con todo lo que cambiaron de la historia real, con razón Lupita Nyong'o no quiso participar al menos alguien tubo respeto por la historia de Angola.
My wish would be that we African women frankly wake up and become strong and fighting women 😍black African women who hold their people like our ancestors else
So we gonna leave out the fact she had 50 husband's and made them dress as women and routinely have them fight till the death and the winner would get to lay with her
Ghana be sleeping. Where's YAA ASANTEWAAA the movie? her story is documented so much that i would be such a great movie. Her descendants still in the Ashanti region.OR NAINO I the richest man to ever live whose descendants still in Sabon Zango, Accra.
@@Niani23455 Even better. Ghana has so much. Even the story of how we came from Egypt. There are a lot of people who don't there are descendants of Ancient Egypt still in Ghana.
I always enjoy watching a show displaying the West values. Those same values the world must line up to preserve. One may think that after 500 years, our Africans brothers and sisters have learned to appreciate Westerners' values!
I particularly like the title AFICAN QUEENS. I want to believe my this title the stories of some other distinguished queens will also be told . In this regard I want to draw your attention to the story of YAA ASANTEWAA. She was a Asante (Ashanti in Ghana) queen par excellence who stood and led men to war against the British army and some would argue even won. You can't a better one than her. 🥂
WATCH THE DOCUSERIES PEOPLE AND STOP JUDGING IT FROM A TRAILER, THATS LIKE READING THE HEADLINES ON THE FRONT PAGE OF A NEWSPAPER AND THINK YOU KNOW THE WHOLE STORY THAT'S BEING TOLD.
Njinga also gained notoriety during this period for her involvement in the slave trade. As a result of the conflicts during her reign, Njinga's forces took hundreds of thousands of captives, allowing the queen to sell nearly 200,000 slaves to the Portuguese.
,C'etais pas elle mais son frère que va ce suicider apres.
Sache aussi que malheureusement tous ce que l'occident voulais de l'Afrique étais ses matières primaires vomme encore de nos jours sauf que à cette époque les matieres premières étais des êtres humains
@@baisabel5193 Ek dink jy is reg, al wat die Weste nog ooit van Afrika wou hê was hulle minerale rykdom. Daar is ongelukkig een uitsondering hier, China is op die oomblik besig om Afrika harder te plunder as enige iemand anders. so dis nie net die Weste nie. Njinga het self slawe besit, sy was beide 'n slawe handelaar sowel as die eienaar van slawe. Alle ryk mense en magtige mense in daardie tyd het slawe besit. Dit was ongelukkig maar net soos die wêreld gewerk het.
@@johanvanschouwenburg9459
Vous comparez des sujets de basse caste de son royaume,que en effet servait les hautes castes ,comme en Europe
A des gens vendu ,dont l'estimation de vie étais de 6 mois à cause du travaille ,
Les gens de basse caste du royaume du Ndongo mourait à cause du travaille force ?
Les gens au Ndongo ou encore au Congo étais force à se reproduire entre eux ?
Elle a vendu des esclaves aux Hollandais mais le documentaire explique bien le pourquoi.
L'occident à cette époque prenais l'or en Afrique de l'ouest(Ghana et Côte D'Ivoire)
Mais en Afrique Centrale c'était bien des matières vivants que les intéressait.
Les Hollandais ,avant de convoiter les terres étais tous d'abord venu pour acheter des humains ,malheureusement c'est l'histoire ce n'est pas contre les gens parce que ils sont blancs ou autre .
En effet la Chine viens elle aussi par intérêt.elle viens en ami bienveillante dénouer d'intérêt
lol so are you saying Netflix is faking history once again 😅
@@jamesoakley4570 She was literally the biggest female slave trader of all time, as far as we are aware.
Another thing American's like to leave out is that European powers never went to Africa and captured random villagers as slaves. They paid for people who were already slaves, and then sold them in American colonies.
K well after Woman King, I did research before seeing the production - "In November 1627, Nzingha again attempted to negotiate with the Portuguese, sending a peace delegation and a gift of 400 slaves." Oof, so the "no slaves in your kingdom" thing just an overly intense way of saying "you're currently out of stock"?
Nzinga didn't want her people sold. Whst you people fail to.underatood is there was no pan Africanism, she sold defeated rivals kingdoms that would have been raiding her lands like the imbangala, for example.
@@admirekashiri6651 she owes black people everywhere reparations
All that is a lie, if she was fighting slavery since she was a kid how can she sell people, all those are white people's lie, I am from Ndongo... We know the real history... Europe is afraid.
@@rodochrous She does? We'll have to use a ouiji board to ask for them, then.
@@chillin5703 there is something in areas called blood debt which means her debt to society gets taken over by other from her blood. so they could ask that relative.
I enjoyed it. My only issue is people always complaining about accuracy when it comes to telling stories of Africans. But the stories of the Kings and Queen's of Europe are always leaving out their faults. Yet u get no complaints
People are always complaining about accuracy regardless of race. Don’t try make this racial or political. This is an African story and Africans have bigger things to focus on than political correctness, wholeness and racism
@@TV-bf1vq nope it's about racism because they romance Europe so they water down the bs to make them look like heroes i.e queen Elizabeth
@@keiajones5278 This documentary makes Njinga look great despite the slavery so I doubt it’s a race thing. But you may continue pulling race cards😊
@@keiajones5278 have you watched this documentary or you are just arguing?
People complained to no end about Vikings Valhalla during the first season (much to my annoyance), and that wasn't a documentary.
I don't like the fact they try to imply "black queens" using the name "african queens". It's not the same. Africa isn't a uniform continent with a single race. Africa is populated by arabs, semites, subsaharian black africans, etc... Hell even between "black africans" there is a lot of diversity of races. People from Mali looks nothing like people from Kenia.
Because theyre talking about the indigenous people, not the latter invaders. And black is a race, somalians arent black. And your kind never complains when only egypt gets represented but now you want to complain about african queens.
Angola 🇦🇴 no mapa.
Salute from Angola.✌🏿
Ok, so this is an interesting one. It is important to note that real human beings are never entirely good or bad but exist within a spectrum. This show does well to paint Nzinga in a good light. It is true that she was a great leader and an inspiration to many African women. It is also true that she took part in the slave trade and sold some Africans to the Dutch. I would argue that it was a necessity in the time for her kingdom to survive and even thrive, but those are still human beings being sold. My point is if you want to look at her as a role model because of Netflix's account on this story then you are right. But, if you want to look at Netflix's account as inaccurate and not portraying the entire story, then you are also right.
You can not judge people of the past by todays standards. If that’s the case then we would need to cancel about half of our founding fathers
@@vmlksm9 You are very right. We tend to view things in terms of our modern ideas of morality that have taken centuries to develop. I'm sorry if my post appeared judgmental, that was not my intention.
Perfectly said 👏 but to be accurate, it wasn't some Africans. There were lots of Africans sold by here , to the Dutch and Portuguese, because she didn't want her own kingdom and tribe to be victims.
She did what she had to do !
@@vmlksm9 it is hard to say exactly where to draw the line because no one is perfect, but I also think the whole institution of slavery is horrendous and even though some of our founding fathers did some great things, I still have a hard time like on Presidents day celebrating because I know they were mostly OK with owning another person and I can't reconcile that in my head. The idea of anyone thinking they own someone is just horrible.
@Somebody LovesYou however u can't just change the historical facts which are happening in today's society
I personally liked the part where she teleported to the mood snapped her fingers and all the actual history vanished from American schools!!!
Well done Jada
continuing to prove
you are as much a talented producer of researched accurate material , friend to your community , trustworthy mother as you are a loving wife to Will!
those still buying Jada's gas lighting really don't EVER go look for themselves and never will!
😂
She is a celebrated child predator that cucks her husband I wouldn't watch anything she makes.
What you expect? she gotta represent her bald headed queens, no matter how terrible this lady’s history was, to her own 💀
America don’t need to teach « black history » because being « black » isn’t american
So you think the actual history is the one you learn in your schools?!? 😂😂😂
Yes Jada Pinkett. Lets make a documentary about a woman who sold hundreds of thousands of our own people into slavery! I have not watched this yet but Njinga was no hero! She was a monster!
😂😂
They like glorifying & misrepresenting actual history with all their big budgets & you fail to get facts right.
Amen!! This show is a joke.
Just as much as every other ruler and monarch of the period
from netflix " there are no slave in my kingdom"
in real life
Nzinga also established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Nzinga's kingdom
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Yes. She ended slavery after that.
This is just a trailer but I can't shake off the feeling that these shows make African kingdoms look more less sophisticated than they are supposed to be. Ndongo sent diplomatic missions across Western Europe. However, the palace and meeting of the king as seen in the trailer looks like something that would have occurred in the Zulu kingdom rather than Ndongo. The Woman King did something similar to Dahomey where Abomey lacked a ditch, and walls of the palace had no bridges, towers and the cannons that were mounted on them.
Either way, I hope the documentary touches on Ndongo's martial arts of Sanguar and how Ndongo soldiers were so agile they could dodge arrows. I hope it also touches of Ndongo's musketeers and their ability to build fortifications.
Angola didnt even have one university until the Portuguese built one for them in the 1960s.
@@Sikandros "Angola didn't even have one University until the Portuguese built one for them in the 1960s."
The Kingdom of Kongo built a college around 1619 in the capital of Mbanza Kongo by king Alvaro III.
@@Niani23455 wow a jesuit college for the worship of non indigenous gods built in the same time of colonialism with slave labor money. Kinda weird how that wasnt built 200 years ago before europeans arrived.
@Jason "Alvaro III? Trying to Europeanize are we?"
It doesn't change the fact that Alvaro III was a Kongolese Black African and not a European.
@@Sikandros "Wow a jesuit college for the worship of non indigenous gods built in the same time of colonialism with slave labor money."
The Kingdom of Kongo were Christians and for your information Christianity doesn't belong to Europe as it even originates from the Near East. It was built in 1619 when Kongo was a free state not colonized. Colonialism came in 1861.
"...built in the same time of colonialism with slave labor money."
If you're concerned about slave money, show similar concerns to the Portuguese Empire within that same period who built an entire colonial empire in the Americas sponsored by slave labor money.
" Kinda weird how that wasn't built 200 years ago before Europeans arrived."
Kinda weird the Portuguese didn't have a university before the North African conquest.
There is a great film Njinga, Queen if Angola. Stars an Angolan actress that also won Miss Universe. Film was made with Angola and Portugal and portrays a sincere (as far as we know) history, which is poltically very interesting. This stuff Jade Pinkett is doing is AMERICAN black nationalism, and trying to create a false narrative about Africa. Nobody should take this seriously or as quality film making (but please watch the 2013 film, which is excellent). What is it with americans always wanting to falsify things to bolster their own self image?
U mean Hollywood celebrities? She is part of the black boule class. Not the grass roots black American class. These are two different groups of people.
Naturally A-American women see a Queen whose legacy is infanticide and the mass enslavement of black men as the "greatest woman leader the world has ever seen".
Stunning and brave. Roll credits. Lkng live the single mother pandemic.
So Netflix, when are you going to release a Malcolm X documentary film played by Ryan Gosling?
In theory, wouldn’t that mean that we would have to see a bunch of white people spitting at and calling Ryan Gosling the N-word?
Bc that would genuinely be hilarious to see
Jada Pinkett Smith is not somebody who I would trust writing historically correct scripts but we will see
You would be correct. This is mostly fiction. Njinga was a massive slave trader and most of her battles against the Portuguese and slaving were to keep control of the slave trade herself. Complicated truth would be more interesting and in a way more healing for race relations but are unpalatable in this woke era were victimhood equals power and money.
@@TheForestDemons Nobody cares about what your fragile white bias thinks.
Did she write it? Or just produce it
@@TheForestDemons lol
@@jaelcaribe Executive Producer of the series, it was written and researched by others.
She is my 17th great grandmother! I am so excited to see this!
I really wish they would tell the true story, and not make it political, yes, she was a fighter but she also sold her own people, people who disagreed with her. From Angola.
Is that not inherently political lol
Yes, she was a queen so it is, but what i meant is that just because she did some good things we can't forget the other things she did which is not that great, many of the storyteller this time don't do research on the full story they sell to the specter
@@coposebomgostos Unless you've seen this already, is it possible they will indeed cover her less noble actions as "king"?
@@breathejuliet390 it's just the fact that most of the writers for this type of movie only show one side of the story, which represents an idea they want to sell, it's never a true story or even close to the truth. I just think that if you want to show a part of history, you should tell the good and the bad, besides i just think there is a lot of slavery movie out there and these people just want to keep people in the past without showing the real history
@@brucesmith7481 let's wait and see, I'm just tried of the slavery movies, black innocent white people bad idea.
"There are no slaves in my kingdom" Yes, also there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
thats an actual historiclly accurate line. but in reallity it was more meant to mock the portogese, Like "i dont have any drugs" while holding a bag of coke
Nzinga's mother, Kengela Ka Nkombe, was one of her father's slave wives which means there were slaves in her kingdom. They're not treated the way westerners treated slaves, that's the main difference.
But she still sold them to the Europeans and it's in her
@@Bogotaeverything Don't see your point here. I was just pointing out how misleading the trailer is "There's no slave in this kingdom".
This looks so much like "The Woman King". The story and the setting are very similar.
What do you mean pfff Njinga existed until today her people celebrate and speak of her.
lol that's exactly what I thought when watching this trailer!!!
Africa had many Queens. The woman King may have focused on one woman... but it was a fictional depiction of the Dahomey a group of Warrior women in Benin.
Queen Njinga is a real historical figure. Evidently there is a lot of African history that still shocks people because of the lies the Europeans told to downplay who we were.
@@MsHannahHTI love this reply ❤
The docu series feels similar to the woman king starring Viola Davis .
In that it's a complete fabrication and is lightyears away from reality?
@@k9prtr what do you mean? haven't seen it yet, is it fiction like the crown etc?
And that’s exactly the kind of vibes I was getting
Like all the medival movies about Europe is based on real history.
Troll bye
@@arezoi this is supposed to be documentary, not a movie. Stay sharp
I wonder if this will be a series that will highlight other African Queens as well. I watched this series and loved it. This was well done, the best way not to repeat history it to actually learn it!! Netflix great job!
Up to a point. It's missing a great deal of facts. It's very good at portraying her fight against Portugal and her fight against them enslaving her people. Yet, there's not a single word about her selling upwards of 13.000 people to the Dutch.
It doesn't really help anyone to share some bits of history if we aren't shown all the facts, positives AND negatives, which is rather common with these docu-series.
@@MrEifer I didn't see her selling anyone in the series. What I saw was her allowing it to happen because she didn't have the man power or the weapons to fight European powers. She fought a good fight but she couldn't win.
@@blackacademy7647 That's exactly my point. You didn't see her selling anyone in the series despite it being documented as fact that she had an ongoing slave trade with the Dutch, selling upwards of 13.000 slaves to them alone, pr year.
The series is very good at showing her in a positive light only, neatly skipping all the unsavory stuff.
🤣🤣🤣
Its not historically accurate, though. It won't help us keep from repeating the bad parts. And history always repeats itself. Nothing is new under the sun.
Ok, I really had high hopes for this movie . Because I have read several books about Queen Nzinga , and watched several documentary,s about here .
Then I realized I needed to dim my expectations because it's a netflix adaption 🤣
I don't mind if the writers are going to be FREE in their creativity , I just hope they don't turn it into some kind of viewer friendly woman empowerment flick . Queen Nzinga was fierce brutal cruel hard , and yes, smart clever and powerful.
Well you already know how it is going to turn out sadly.
@Krasimir Barzilski can't know for sure until I watched it . But seeing how a lot of historical movie's, are being made lately, it's better to have low expectations .
Just watched it. You were spot-on unfortunately 😢😂
@T V 🤣I still have to watch it , but thanks for the info 👍🏾. And yeah, we all ready knew this was going to happen
@@ryufight7987 that’s how I felt watching Chevalier. A greater-than-life that was reduced as an angry biracial
Can I get an African series that doesn’t include any European influence? Just stories from history before colonizing or even African fables?
For real!
Like what? Mali, Songhai? Futa toro? They all have Muslim influence but were exclusively black kingdoms.
I hear you, and I love it! PreColonial Africa! Yes. ❤
In the real world though, African monarchies begged the British not to abolish the Atlantic Slavetrade.
The British did so anyway.
And the British went on to colonize large portions of the world. They were just changing their business plan.
Wakanda forever
Just started this and I am very impressed by the acting. It's weird that the Portuguese characters are all very very British though
Some of the Africans have British accents as well. lol
@@DJ-gy7ze There is a film if you want Portuguese or African accents.
Exactly. When Portugal are Moorish as in Morenos. But then again she was a slave trader and is being depicted as queen 😂 what do you expect from this Afro-American Propaganda 😂
@@brixcosmo She was a Queen. Wtf you on about? Do you people ever stop whining.
@@brixcosmoshe was forced to be a slave trader as many other kings and queens all around africa, so they could keep their kingdoms. Are you telling she was not a Queen?!? Where does it say that, in your fantasy books in schools?!? 😂😂
The first casualty of war is the truth.
Okay guys let’s bring all the truths out since I read this comment. During the slave trade there were two ways of getting slaves one way was capturing random Africans from villages or wherever and taking them back to America or Europe for slavery, another way was buying African slaves on the market. The queen depicted here did indeed sell slaves and participated in the slave trade and did sell around 200,000 slaves BUT to be in particular the Portuguese did not buy slaves from the Queen due to their harsh relations, instead the Portuguese had stolen people and villagers to be slaves in their colonies in Africa and also in South America. The queen was very well against this and wished to stop this. Before this and before she was even queen they had been in bad relations with Portugal, and after her brother died and she had become queen she had negotiated several times with the Portuguese and most times the Portuguese had gotten the better half of the deal. Soon pushing the Queen and several people out into new lands. After partying with the Dutch this is when we start to see where that 200,000 figure may have come from and that is because she had sold about 13,000 slaves to the Dutch per year after the Dutch had kicked the Portuguese out of Luanda and established a directorate that is when the queen wished to establish an embassy in Luanda and further progress the relations with the Dutch. And although she had sold slaves this whole comment is made to excuse the European and Americans participation in the slave trade and actually their version of slavery being so damn brutal and that is chattel slavery, which deemed people private property and nothing more. Although the actions of the queen and all of the world powers at the time were wrong we understand that the times in which this was happening Europe had already been colonising much of Africa and basically stealing villagers for slaves, and although some African nations participated in the slave trade and sold slaves themselves this does not count for the 5 million and maybe more that were forcefully taken instead of bought to be used as slaves in the Americas. People do not point blame at only one party for slavery to make yourself feel better about your nation’s history. The ancestors of the 1500s-1800 do not speak for us and we do not speak for them so learn from their actions, do not take accountability for them. Unless you have bought and sold a slave or been a slave (though ancestral slavery can be a trauamtising aspect to believe that at once you were nothing but property. Even one of my teacher, she had an aunt, and that aunt well she had a mother that was born into slavery. Slavery is not such a distant past it’s only been 158 years, that’s not even to account for the states that did not leave the Union who still had their slaves until later years. Let us remember, do better for the future and create more understanding on why explaining and knowing the full truth of history and all it’s connections matter to not pointing blame at one nation when in fact it’s all their fault for why innocent people were bought and sold, but unfortunately object morality can change over decades.
I meant to say NOT EXCUSE, my apologies I will never excuse Americas and Europes participation in the slave trade.
The real Nzinga was a monster though
Just like Julia Caesar, like Alexandre and other rulers. Yet they are called the greats
I love a good fantasy tv series.
You're the biggest FOOL. Nzinga is based on a real person. Lack of education what a pity. Yet you westerners claim to be smart
This is Gold. A story deticated to Queen Nzinga of the Kongo Kingdom. can't wait to see it.
She was Queen of Ndongo Kingdom
She was king of Nothing. She was a slave trader that sold millions of slaves to Portuguese and Dutch Kingdoms. What a Queen.
Sure if you like slave traders.
Finally something original about African culture and history, i was getting sick and tired of watching the race swapping of old classic characters
We are all sick of that crap.
Njingha also established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Njingha's kingdom. Will we see that part in the show?
White people like you will always find something negative to say, whenever you see a good thing from people of color. You all said the same in “The Woman King”.
@@999oj I am not white. History tells a different story than the virtue signalling movie companies, and the question you have to ask yourself is why they are lying to you? Money. They want your money and to earn your goodwill so they aren't attacked. It has nothing to do with truth or virtuousness, they don't care about you.
Checks out. Maybe her and the woman king should go bowling 🎳😅
Watch it and let us know
@@TheQuickyouknow Maybe Netflix will answer me ;-p
00:25 "Slavery threatened to decimate a continent..."
While that is true and export of slaves made African development worse of. Most African rules were NOT against slave trading. Slavery, aka enslaving enemy tribes and using them oneself or selling them to Arabs or later the Europeans, was a MAIN feature of African culture back then. Nijinga was against slavery in the same manner that Columbus was a great guy that loved native rights. Most of the economic income and political leverage Nijinga had was via the slave trade. She was very active in that trade and even when she wanted a diplomatic treaty with the Portuguese. She offered 400 slaves for free in good faith. Later she also did similar via offering a military alliance with the Dutch in order to remove the Portuguese by guaranteeing the Dutch access to the slave trade pipeline she was controlling. Njinga probably had love for her nations, but she was a ruler and that looked out for number 1, first. She didnt care what was best for the nation and all this nonsense one insinuate in this trailer.
Go read a history book. This female lived a challenging and interesting life, but she was no more anti slave than the founding fathers of USA.
I would actually argue she had more in common with the Dixie states tbh.
First of all, there is nothing called African culture, Africa is a continent with vast cultures, and msny of them had nothing to do with the slave or enslaving. Njinga was against slavery when it came to her kingdoms, enslaving or selling rival kingdoms members was not a problem for her.
@@user-ok9oz7ot6d If water is too cold. Does that mean that too hot water is okay and wont cause harm to people going into it? This is a metaphor and me basically calling out how simple you seem.
@@admirekashiri6651 This is what the commenter says. They didn't mention slaves "from her kingdom" they meant in general. It was a normal give-and-take for most leaders. The comment simply says we must not ignore that because it is unconvincing, just like we shouldn't ignore the slave dealing from European or Ottoman states. In just the first few seconds of this the actress says that "there are no slaves in her kingdom" which is untrue. They were just not slaves FROM her kingdom
@@admirekashiri6651 what BS
@@hn5421 what's BS exactly Bd based on what.
The story that they never told, the queen of my Land.Angola 🇦🇴 .
Ngola
Ngola was Ngolo but sadly wrote A NGOLA: Strength related.. Strong... And Rugged
The angolans already told this story
@@negroreal6613 ngolo - ngola- Angola
You are full of nonsense there is an Angolan version made by Semba and played by Lesliana Pereira its been out for over a decade pfff...
Good thing! Because I grew tired of the ancient Greece and Romans and Britain docu stuff.. We need Africans, Southeast Asian, Latin American having the spotlight NOW!
I second that
Yeah I agree Just don't try to steal somebody else's history Stick with the afro queens and leave Cleopatra alone Where're the real ones? Hatshepsut Nefertiti etc
~ tHeRe ArE nO SlaVeS iN My KinGdOm ~
Says Netflix xp
Lots of haters from Woman King. Please make more. Keep pissing off the haters!
Even though they took some liberties I thought that this series turned out better than expected. It was very good and I highly recommend it.
Can you give examples of what kind of liberties?
@@fruity4820 Her role in the slave trade wasn't as positive as depicted the movie. She proposed slaves to the Portuguese in some negociations and the return of previous runaways back to them. She was much more contested by some of her own nobles and lost more fights. In these series she is often presented as unshakable most of the time, losing only a few times. She thrived off the slave trade to rebuilt her army while she became Queen of Matamba. A couple of other things were left out as well.
@@psa2969 Stop lying no she didn't you are not even angolan...Before you people had Malcom X we had Njinga suck it up
What historical figure haven't they taken liberties with?
@@psa2969 bro you really like false fake media representations for a civilizations THAT IS MOSTLY NOW WHITE but no it was Black due to Netflix
We had many wonderful queen mothers and queens all over Africa. Glad we can see a glimpse.
Nzinga also established a lucrative slave trade with the Dutch, who purchased as many as 13,000 slaves per year from Nzinga's kingdom
very vry wonderful.. tell me again how wonderful your " queens" are in africa.. you ignorant monke
We wuz KANGZ n kweeen shiieeeeeet
just the story is a plain lie
This was good. Watched the whole series last week!
"No slave in my kingdom" = sell slaves outside kingdom
Yes that's what ahe did. She didn't want her people sold but had no problem selling rival kingdoms
Don't forget the number 1 rule for all "great" African historical figures, they were all overwhelmingly supportive of the slave trade.
The story has already been told in a 2013 movie. Which also did not include the African ruler being involved in slave trade.
Look at all.the whites wanting to blame african chiefa for.slavery and to not take accountability
True, there are many negative narratives, they did not come here to try understand the true... Many lies., Too many lies.
@@Tudoacaba Well the owners of the history did not find fault why do you force false narrative? Kick rocks
@@cia6566 who do you think are the owners of this history? ... I tell you that I am the owner of the this history. My grandmother Mather of my mother was one of the Soba in Malange in this Kingdom... I speak kimbumdo, and I tell you that most of these narratives are wrong... These are European narratives, most of the costumes we still have the colonization did not arase everything... The Portuguese were not alone they got help of the English, Spanish and Germany... Just search for pink map in Africa...!
All of them African kings /rulers &tribesmen sold slaves to Europeans . They sold their own people to slavery. After they blamed Europeans .
Respectful of comments? The movies praises a slave trader. She says "there will be no slaves in my land". How is that respectful? She was a monster.
Just like any other king or leader , the nobles back then used to make balls and stuff while 95% of the population was dying but guess what people still make movies abt them 🙄
Why is this woman being touted as a warrior, someone to be proud of? She was a horrificly brutal woman. Has anyone even read her true history? It's disgusting this was even made..
All royalties are horrible. Please go say that underneath Queen Elizabeth’s video
Every ruler has their light and darkness
@adriennepyle can
you imagine the colonizers who were kidnapping raping murdering and human trafficking.
I haven’t done research on this historical figure or civilization, so if this is based off of facts and truth then it’s absolutely incredible, if that’s not the case then quit turning historical figures into fantasy projects.
Produced by Jade pinker smith… is this movie about their family ?
Lol! People using Wikipedia as a research source. The first thing my classmates and I were taught, do NOT use Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it. 🙄🤦🏿♀️
Yeah but intelligent people use wikipedia to look for sources and citations.
@@VandalAudi
Then they were not taught how to research. I had a research course while pursuing my bachelor's degree, and two research courses while pursuing my master's degree. If someone presented me with information from Wikipedia I might not comment unless they were in my course, but I know better. Again, anyone can edit Wikipedia. It's not peer-reviewed or scholarly.
@@sharonsmalls6846 tbh, wikipedia a good indexing entrypoint rather than a source. The articles themselves are probably at best second hand information, at worst opinionated "noise", but they do point out where to start looking for more concise data.
People just use wiki links to simplify matters in online debates, because,.... well it's an online debate. Lpw stakes low rewards.
@@VandalAudi
I was not educated to use Wikipedia in any form or fashion. Also, as a certified legal nurse consultant, I would never deem to look at Wikipedia for anything. I couldn't imagine using it as a source for an attorney. I will search for my articles to use as a reference. Nevertheless, you carry on and use Wikipedia for anything that benefits you.
@@sharonsmalls6846 well, yeah, it doesn't matter what you use to search for your references, but you do use them to search for anything that confirms or backs your argument. Wikipedia is a good start off point to do that, as it is one of the most curated index of sources. Say that you need to write a paper on tracheoctomy related devices, you don't cite wikipedia as your source, rather use it to find which section of Fundamentals of nursing: The art and science of nursing care, that has the concise information you seek (pages 1382-1383 and 1404, btw).
The Angolan Queen 👑🇦🇴🇦🇴
Love Nzinga and her strength but I studied African Studies in University and the start of: there's no slave in my kingdom is the fakest thing. Even her most iconic moment was sitting on a slave to be at the height of a Portuguese that was sitting on a chair (to show both had the same power). She had slaves, slaves were common but she was much more than that. She still represents women's power!
This Americanized sanitation of history is sad. She engaged in slave trade with the Dutch.
Angola in the world 🇦🇴
It's mind blowing that Netflix cam do this but wants to us to think Cleopatra is black. Why not focus more onuch lesser known rulers like these instead of doing the hundredth Cleopatra movie?
Because you turn the comments off The Cleopatra Trailer : she was from Greece 🇬🇷 Not from Africa Just saying !!!
Actually she was born in Egypt from a Greek father and an Egyptian mother but both of them are white so that make her white
no slaves in my kingdom? strange that is when her kingdom was one of the key sellers of slaves and under her rule nearly 200k where sold into slavery
and she expanded the slavery in her kingdom
thats an actual historiclly accurate line. but in reallity it was more meant to mock the portogese, Like "i dont have any drugs" while holding a bag of coke
Wakanda forever 🙅🏼
I’m happy we are started to see more historical “Black movies” but damn at least tell the truth and don’t sugar coat, cherry pick and alter certain aspect to fit your narrative just because you don’t like how dark some of our history is!
Don’t make another Gods of Egypt !!!!!
To everyone who didn't get why some people are angry about diversity in medieval settings. Imagine these african kingdoms would have token white and asian characters just for diversity reasons. And when you complain you are a racist.
I’m watching this!! Thanks Netflix ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🤎
Wow another blast on Netflix, which I could shoot to their standard
Happy to watch this from the land of Njinga ❤ luanda
A great mixture of talking, history and dramatization.
This video has more dislikes than likes becuase of a multitde of reasons. I am african so i will like it but people do not like to feel like they are being used or decived and if you expect anyone to believe that it was only the women who fought slaver trafikers in that time then your are deciveing yoruselves. Let me tell you this MAJORITY of the slaves that were taken from Africa were sold by Africans.
I come From Nigeria and when i was young before i even knew the im0lications of slavery my father used to tell me how his grandfather would and could sell slaves to the oyinbo (white people) when they needed money. it was a lot harder for slaver trafikers to stell whole tribes as 90% of the time they would get surrounded and they would fight back against them. but eventtually they decied to trade with the natives for slaves . so the natives would take unwanted people and sell them. I should point out that most of Nigeria was heavily divied and their were thousands of small tribes that could very easily be dominated at first (1500-1700)
My great great grandfather 100% sold slaves and so did a lot of other people during his time in Nigeria and Africa
Now im mentioning this becuase the Tribe in this video and the woman king movie both did the same thing they fought well but also sold slaves. Do you know who fought even better for hundreds of years and Never sold slaves. The mossi Tribe. Here is a tribe that didnt even start fighting european slave traders they started fighting in the year 11th century up until the 18th century they fough muslims then christians then eueropeans all in the span of 700-800 years. Yet netflix doesnt think they are worth making a movie about as its not political enough
@NoLabelBrighton yea the problem is african people dont see themselves or their ancestors as slaves so why would any african company make a movie about it
Netflix doesn't Do movies. They by projects, documentaries, comedies,drama. So please do your movie on that Mossi tribe, submit it to Netflix and we'll be watching. And Nigeria didn't exist at the time you're talking.
@@mikegreensberg3316 Mike respectfully your you do not know what your talking about. The name Nigeria may not have existed but the country and the tribes their did.
as for making a movie why would i do that, all the documenteries are made by people in hollywood and are based around poltical agenda for hollywood and america. do you think people in africa care about this documentary. No they do not
@@d3po607 You are just contradicting yourself.And I didn't say tribes didn't exist. So if the country existed, then what was the name?? Was it a country or it was different kingdoms with they rulers, kings&queens,and different borders as today? And I'm astonished by your stong statement that"MAJORITY" of slaves were sold by Africans but don't question why the slave ships were there to begin with. Some humans decided to build those slave ships, structured them to carry as much other humans as possible to exploit, for centuries. None of those ships were built in Africa. Why don't you highly denounce those ship owners or they descendants? You could do a movie or documentary denouncing all they schemes but no, you prefer to scream "Hollywood, America have an agenda", like if we don't know it.That's old news. Question: Why don't you use "Nollywood" to make historical movies,documentaries, instead of always the same themes. Stop whinning about Hollywood; create and invest on an instructive Nollywood.
Once I saw this was Will Smiths husband, Jada smith's film, this is a easy hard pass!
As an African I'm glad that descendants of the African diaspora and enslaved Africans see that we really didn't want them to be taken away and we fought so hard. We were so devastated and felt their absence. Untill today we still feel so connected. 🙏💕💕💕
She literally sold slaves to the european
Its a shame the African kings and queens ran the slave trade for so long. They never wanted it to end.
@@bl8388 *Any LIE or exaggeration to take take the heat off of whyte folks not only enslaving Black ppl, but colonizing and destroying the entire earth!*
@cleodontina1 I totally feel you, yes💜💜💜
@@bl8388 That's a very bold thing to say as a descendant of genocidal colonizers.
We are Living a world where black queen have to complete we came from queens and warriors so don't forget from Richmond Virginia
Glad to see Jada Pinkett Smith do something useful for once 😭😭😭 this better turn out good. But have a feeling 50 Cent's TV series when it is released will be much better. But will still watch this one
amen to that
Hey she was great in The Matrix.
Which 50 Cent Tv series?!?
The Power franchise?
Round 2.... Angola suing Netflix
She gave slaves to portuguese and other countries 😂😂😂 what a "leader" and "no slaves in my kingdom" 😂😂😂 people dont know how many africans did slave business...they did it way before europeans came there and nothing changed with europeans😂 it is hard to accept I know but facts are facts
Now we having this stories because we saw the Woman King, y'all just want to shine
Well at least this time the Skin Colour is right and they got many good scenes.
Sadly I do not understand why they let it look like she had not sold many africans into slavery
I'm a single male in Canada, no password sharing here. I was considering a subscription to Netflix, but not if I cannot watch when I want, and WHERE I want. Do you not remember your promotion, "Love is sharing" ? Now, Netflix is no different than the cable company's of the past (ALL of them are gone now). Good luck in the future Netflix, you are going to need lots of it. 🤬
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. I look forward to the next ones. We definitely need more Ancient African Kingdom series.
This series is amazing. All the actors were phenomenal 🎉
Did we watch the same show? The battles were 5 guys on a field, the acting was over the top, half the shit was made up, ???
Eu quero um documentário desse pro meu trabalho de escola
We wuz Queenz and sheeeeit!
I'm gonna fall in love with the show, & then they're gonna cancel it.
Thou this looks so badass......
The only cancel shows because of low ratings so spread the word.
@@Dom-pw2sj eh not really. 1899, Julie and the Phantoms, Sense8, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Anne with an E (I could name more tbh but moving on) were very highly rated shows but got cancelled by Netflix
A slave trader saying "no slaves in my kingdom"
😂😂😂😂
She is right tho. Not in the kingdom, outside It.
The fact that this has 50% dislikes is telling. People have on anything and everything that is black nowadays.
Pretty much
You're wrong
People want good true stories and nothing political
@@nigelkhan5331 You're wrong. if this was about some european historical time period, no one would care. You see viking and euro-centric medieval shows getting praised (despite being historically inaccurate) yet the moment something afro-centric is made, it's a problem.
@The Loner Coder na it's the fact they bend history to make bad people look good. I would enjoy it if it was historically accurate and not just a political show. Seen it and it just lies about her history making it out to be she's a all loving leader who didn't sell her people that didn't agree with her ideals
@@gamingcells1432 yet you see the same thing when anything black is made lmao. Like people getting triggered over fictional characters being black, asian, or hispanic.
Talk about lifelong feelings of inadequacy......
I don't understand why people are upset that people of African heritage want their history told. It always seems to be a problem when the Europeans aren't allies or the heroes in these stories is when they all of a sudden have a problem
I don't think people are upset. It's just hypocrisy, they make her seem all good and that she's against slavery, when in reality she sold people into slavery aswell.
Shush before you anger the 🌈 people m.
Nobody is upset about what you are talking about but you know that. It is the misrepresentation of certain characters to push a narrative.
@@TheYors92 literally almost all history that is a misrepresentation so why does it all of sudden matter?
@@pinktokyo it's seems like you are saying that history is no real. Sure it is written by the Victors but that does not make it untrue.
I love seeing a strong black women
I just put this on randomly so I could sleep, but ended up staying up watching all the episodes because of how well it was put together. I recommend to anyone looking for a good documentary to chill and watch
Mockumantary*
Good to watch but far from a documentary
Fiquei tão feliz por uma série tão bem feita sobre rainhas africanas. Sempre vemos séries de Vikings e os reis africanos não perdem em nada sobre guerra e estratégia.
Só para o Brasil exportou milhões de escravos. Que rainha. Nossa.
@@brixcosmo
Brixy the troll, what’s poppin player?
@@Daron7181 Your pumpkin head is! 'Cause you can't stand the Inconvenient Truth. Keep on portraiting Enslavers/SlaveTraders as heros. Have fun with that, player!
Tao feliz de ver uma rainha, parte de uma dinastia que vivia sobretudo de invadir e escravizar outras tribos, ser apresentada como uma heroina profetizada e salvadora da populacao negra, apesar de nao ter feito nada para acabar com escravatura, pelo contrario, continuou a viver dela. Este "documentario" e um insulto para a historia africana e negra.
E pena ter uma historia falsa.
I have heard she had a male harem and made them fight each other, cut the throat of her own slave during negotiations to be taken seriously, basically like any man given power. If this is true then I am sorry for calling only men predators,power corrupts. Women just had less reach to it, but if given they would be depraved the same way, also the trans community. Basically being human
Acabo de terminarla, un asco que la presenten como docuserie con todo lo que cambiaron de la historia real, con razón Lupita Nyong'o no quiso participar al menos alguien tubo respeto por la historia de Angola.
King woman are Based in History of Bénin in ouest Africa.Nzinga Mbandi is from Angola in centre Africa.
Aprende géographie antes de meter comentario
TikTok has woken all of us up!!!!!!!!
Wow! I can't wait to see this movie. Keep it coming Netflix 💯
My wish would be that we African women frankly wake up and become strong and fighting women 😍black African women who hold their people like our ancestors else
We need one on Ya Asante Wa. This one was really good though. I fully recommend!
Just watched it and Holy S*** is good! Idk about the documentary part of it, where they make comments on history. Is it documentary or not?
seen it in one go.. amazing story. I hope more truth like this will see the light of day
Problem is that it is not "the truth" but in fact many historical errors in it as many people already point out.
@@kaze7781they are bots.
Bots have really taken over comments section
So we gonna leave out the fact she had 50 husband's and made them dress as women and routinely have them fight till the death and the winner would get to lay with her
Ghana be sleeping. Where's YAA ASANTEWAAA the movie? her story is documented so much that i would be such a great movie. Her descendants still in the Ashanti region.OR NAINO I the richest man to ever live whose descendants still in Sabon Zango, Accra.
I'd prefer a movie on the Ashanti Empire in the 1820s when its civilization was at its peak.
@@Niani23455 Even better. Ghana has so much. Even the story of how we came from Egypt. There are a lot of people who don't there are descendants of Ancient Egypt still in Ghana.
I like. I'm waiting for the french version
I always enjoy watching a show displaying the West values. Those same values the world must line up to preserve.
One may think that after 500 years, our Africans brothers and sisters have learned to appreciate Westerners' values!
Christianity comes from the East.
Is it out
I particularly like the title AFICAN QUEENS. I want to believe my this title the stories of some other distinguished queens will also be told . In this regard I want to draw your attention to the story of YAA ASANTEWAA. She was a Asante (Ashanti in Ghana) queen par excellence who stood and led men to war against the British army and some would argue even won. You can't a better one than her. 🥂
women can never lead men wtf you talking about boy
@@FeRoOOo71 Wait for the full story in the next AFRICAN QUEENS movie and you will not be confused anymore.
who's that? uneducated idiots who would argue that?
i spose you always have those.
WATCH THE DOCUSERIES PEOPLE AND STOP JUDGING IT FROM A TRAILER, THATS LIKE READING THE HEADLINES ON THE FRONT PAGE OF A NEWSPAPER AND THINK YOU KNOW THE WHOLE STORY THAT'S BEING TOLD.