Berber Queen Dihya fought against Islamic expansion under the leadership of Hasan ibn al Nu'man whose Umayyad armies campaigned across North Africa (c. 7 A.D). Under her leadership, the Arab army was defeated and holed up in Cyrenaica (Libya) for four or five years. The Arabs invaded again, and this time, the Berber army was unable to defend themselves.
Amanishakheto and Kandake Amani (Amanirenas), are said to have fought back the Romans at the kingdom’s northern border who had advanced from Egypt. One of the main pieces of evidence for the Meroitic raids against the Romans is a bronze head of Augustus Caesar found buried beneath the steps of a temple dedicated to victory at Meroë. Both are said to have been blind in one eye. Could they have been the same queen?
Meryt Neith whose name means "beloved of the goddess Neith," lived about 5,000 years ago and ruled Egypt around 2950 B.C. She’s the earliest recorded female pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Two separate tombs are dedicated to her... one in Abydos and the other in Saqqara.
Taytu Beytul claimed descent from the Solomonic dynasty, the daughter of Ras Betul Haile Maryam and Yewubdar. The 1889 Treaty of Wichale Treaty was in fact a deliberate attempt by the Italian government to have Ethiopia become an Italian protectorate. The resulting 1896 Battle of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, was the most significant victory of any African army at the height of European colonialism. Empress Taytu Beytul founded Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa.
Moremi was a legendary queen, wife of Oranyan (Oramiyan), the heir to the king of Ife and son of the founding father of the Yoruba people, Oduduwa. During her reign, Ile-Ife faced the prolonged issue of Ìgbo raiders disrupting and looting its markets, and people.
