Vulgar History - International, part 7： Queen Njinga's Rocky Road To The Throne (pt 1⧸2)

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00:00:30.000 Hello and welcome to Vulgar History, a feminist women's history comedy podcast.

00:00:46.900 My name is Anne Foster and this is season five, Vulgar History Internationale.

00:00:52.460 We're looking at people from various different countries, different cultural backgrounds.

00:00:56.880 and this week we are looking at the story of Njinga of Angola and Matamba. My main source

00:01:04.380 for this episode is the biography Njinga of Angola by Linda Haywood which is a really really really

00:01:11.100 good biography. It's very readable, very understandable. It's got all the facts and

00:01:15.280 sort of like the book about Fredegund and Brunhild that came out. This is the first

00:01:21.840 biography the first non-fiction biography of this woman um which as we'll talk about in this episode

00:01:31.120 she is one of the great monarchs in world history and it's great that there's finally a biography

00:01:38.900 written about her but also it kind of sucks that there wasn't one until now but we'll talk about

00:01:43.040 why there wasn't when we get to the legacy so because this story takes place in angola there's

00:01:49.800 a whole aspect of this about um black history about the history of the african continent that

00:01:55.220 i is a white woman in canada do not i don't i'm not here to speak about that i don't those

00:02:02.280 cultural nuances nothing that i would feel appropriate um talking about so i looked i

00:02:09.380 listened to uh the podcast episode about njinga so there's a podcast called it's a continent which

00:02:14.960 is so good it's really funny so it's hosted by two women i think they both live in the uk now

00:02:21.880 and they're both of african ancestry so they explore key historical moments which have shaped

00:02:26.320 the african continent in an easily digestible satirical and shady format i also listened to

00:02:31.340 the njing episode from the excuse my african podcast life through the eyes of a misrepresented

00:02:36.880 and misunderstood african girl abroad and then for the not the african point of view but the

00:02:44.060 american african-american point of view i listened to the there's an episode of the humanity archive

00:02:49.280 podcast about njinga that's uh another really good podcast i'm associated by a black american man

00:02:54.540 um and that tells the untold and overlooked stories of history i also referred to wikipedia

00:03:01.540 and then also ann terrio who's a history writer you may know about she writes the queens of infamy

00:03:07.860 for long reads. She has a piece about N'Jinga. I looked at that as well. I also listened to an

00:03:13.940 episode of the Royal Diaries, Unlocking History podcast. Why is that? That's because there is,

00:03:19.640 there's this book series, the Royal Diaries. They were out in like the 90s slash early 2000s.

00:03:25.160 There are children's books talking about kind of the tweenage years of various

00:03:28.420 royal women from different countries. And there is one of them about N'Jinga. And actually this

00:03:33.720 is, I had to double check, but this is the second Vulgar History episode that talks about a person

00:03:38.680 about whom there was a Royal Diaries book. The first was Cleopatra. And before the season is

00:03:44.100 over, there's going to be one more Royal Diaries person that I will be profiling. Anyway, so the

00:03:48.960 Royal Diaries Unlocking History podcast, they talk about each of the books in the Royal Diaries

00:03:52.880 series and talk about the real history of them. And it's a really fun podcast, super recommend

00:03:57.740 as well and i wanted to say if this is your first episode of vulgar history welcome glad to have you

00:04:06.740 here and please note that some things happen so often in vulgar history episodes i don't often do

00:04:14.180 content warnings because it's like these things happen in every episode it would be like if my

00:04:19.360 favorite murder was like content warning murder it's like yeah this is going to happen in every

00:04:23.560 episode so stuff that comes up all the time um to the point that there is a bingo card that the

00:04:30.600 members of the tits out brigade helped me create if you scroll down on the instagram at vulgar

00:04:34.240 history pod you can see it there so stuff like um gross age differences child marriage um the death 0.90

00:04:41.840 of children the murder of children murder within a family murder in general suicide sexual assault

00:04:48.220 um and slavery but this episode has some things happen in it that haven't been in other episodes

00:04:54.980 i'm going to give you a heads up that this episode is going to include um the non-consensual

00:05:00.680 sterilization of women cannibalism and the atlantic slave trade so about that so this

00:05:10.060 episode discusses the slavery practices of several african tribal groups and we've had

00:05:15.020 stories in this podcast before where enslaved people were involved harem sultan malintzin

00:05:20.480 recently also fredigan was enslaved um agrippina and cleopatra retained enslaved people like

00:05:28.900 there's been slavery in this show before but the content warning for this episode is that we're

00:05:33.320 going to be also talking about the atlantic slave trade which is not something we've really delved

00:05:38.040 into before so just to be really clear i'm going to quote two people who are not me to explain

00:05:44.020 this concept. So first, Jermaine Fowler from the Humanity Archive podcast said in his episode about

00:05:50.180 Njinga that there's this tendency to isolate and alienate those people of the African continent as

00:05:55.500 quote-unquote selling their people, as if the Europeans didn't sell their people, as if the

00:05:59.660 Asians did not enslave their people, or those in pre-colonial America or anywhere else in the

00:06:03.780 world didn't sell their people. Now if this human history of enslaving other human beings wasn't bad 0.95

00:06:08.520 enough throughout the whole of human history, we're about to get into Slavery 2.0 when we talk

00:06:12.900 about the European slave trade, because this might be one of the most brutal forms of slavery

00:06:16.880 in world history. The European slave trade was like leaping from using swords in battle to heavy

00:06:21.680 artillery and machine gun fire. All of slavery is destructive, but machine gun fire is going to

00:06:26.740 kill way more people, way more rapidly, way more destructive force with way more implications than

00:06:31.600 just a blade. And as Anne Terrio said in her long reads piece about Njinga, there is a vast

00:06:38.000 difference between the slavery that existed before colonization and the operation that the

00:06:42.640 portuguese created so there is slavery in this story but also it's the slave trade which is a

00:06:50.860 whole other huge thing so just to be clear about that um the story takes place in central western

00:06:59.860 africa along the coast and jinga our heroine was born in the kingdom of indongo which is located

00:07:06.960 in the northern part of modern-day angola i will put a map on the instagram just to really

00:07:11.640 situate this if you're not sure where that is so the west coast of the african continent if you

00:07:16.300 picture africa there's sort of like a lump sticking out on the left hand side if you go down below the

00:07:22.640 lump a bit that's kind of where the story takes place at the time of her birth and dango is the

00:07:27.900 second largest state in central africa the people of this kingdom and also other kingdoms nearby

00:07:34.120 were the or mbundu so this is a bantu people who are nowadays the second largest ethnic group in

00:07:40.840 modern day angola the spoken language of njinga and her family was kimbundo which is still the

00:07:47.120 language spoken by umbundo people in angola today so the words especially where this is a podcast

00:07:53.480 they might sound similar like when we're doing harem lived in the harem so the the place is the

00:08:01.380 kingdom of indongo the people are the umbundu the language is kimbundu and our heroine is njinga

00:08:08.560 so another important term to know is the term Angola which might be confusing because this

00:08:16.180 is a podcast you might think I'm saying Angola like the name of the modern-day country but

00:08:20.780 there's no a at the beginning it's n-g-o-l-a and that is the Kimbundu word for their monarch or

00:08:28.180 their leader and it's generally a male gendered term like we've had in other stories so like with

00:08:35.580 um rani didda where she became sri didda um it's it's a term that's generally it just kind of means

00:08:44.380 the ruler so we're going to use the word angola instead of king because it's got its own

00:08:48.860 connotations to this place and time um and the reason why it sounds like the name of the country

00:08:55.740 angola is that someone heard portuguese people i think heard someone use the term angola and they

00:09:01.360 thought oh that's the name of this country and they're like let's call it angola so just you

00:09:05.760 know white people so at the time that njenga was born the angola of ndongo was her grandfather so

00:09:13.640 she's the granddaughter of the angola her father whose name is mbande was the heir to the throne

00:09:19.440 because he was the oldest son of the first wife but so this is a situation again where we've got

00:09:26.520 like multiple wives sort of thing going on but the first wife it's like her children would be

00:09:33.700 the heirs her children would be the most important so Mbande Njinga's father had a first wife but he

00:09:40.740 also had concubines and Njinga's mother was a concubine named Kengele Ka Nkombi and she was in

00:09:48.280 fact his favorite concubine and Njinga was the second child born to this couple so she had an

00:09:54.460 older brother also called Mbande and then later her father and mother would have two more daughters

00:09:59.460 Cambu and Fungi. So her father Mbande had lots of other children with his other wives and concubines

00:10:05.940 but these four Mbande, Njinga, Cambu, and Fungi were all full siblings. They shared the same parents

00:10:13.640 but first this is a story like you know it's epic because from moment one like when she's born it's

00:10:19.240 already a story. So Njinga was making a grand entrance from moment one in that she was born

00:10:24.380 in the breech position, which means she was face up, which babies are usually born face down,

00:10:29.220 with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. So the fact that she and her mother both survived

00:10:34.600 is notable, and her mother went on to have two more children. So this is actually how she got

00:10:38.620 her name. So her name is Njinga, based on the Kimbundu word Kujinga, which means to twist or

00:10:43.740 to turn like how the cord was wrapped around her neck and among the umbundu people children who

00:10:49.400 suffered difficult or unusual births were believed to possess possess spiritual gifts and some saw 0.75

00:10:55.000 the births as an indicator the person would grow up to become a powerful person and they were right 0.99

00:10:59.380 because this is part one of a two-part episode and jingo story is very dramatic and she's a very 0.90

00:11:05.960 powerful person so um her very her dramatic birth meant everyone thought she was destined for great

00:11:11.480 things guess what she was so which is just as well because she was born into a really chaotic

00:11:17.160 situation just in terms of what was going on politically so she was born in 1583 to put this

00:11:25.040 into perspective to other world events slash things we talked about on this podcast so this

00:11:29.760 was five years before elizabeth the first became queen in england and actually njinga and elizabeth

00:11:35.940 the first are compared um because they would go on to reign at the same time for a while and other

00:11:43.400 similarities that we're going to get to it's just interesting they're both alive at the same time

00:11:47.720 but that's england the that's not what's going on in indongo in 1583 the year she was born

00:11:54.340 this was around a hundred years since the portuguese had arrived in central africa

00:11:58.660 and that's going to be a huge part of this story because that really set the scene for the world

00:12:04.000 she was born into which is one in which everyone was at war all the time and to be clear everyone

00:12:10.080 had been at war all the time already because it's the 16th century and everywhere in the world there

00:12:15.220 were like we've talked about there's like little kingdoms there's not big countries anywhere and

00:12:20.680 everybody wanted to take land from each other this was happening all over the place it just

00:12:24.280 exacerbated once um the portuguese showed up because that sort of affected the balance of

00:12:31.980 power so the portuguese arrived they were the first europeans to arrive here in this

00:12:38.440 era and they began capturing african people to send them to portugal to work as laborers

00:12:45.460 and then once the portuguese set up a colony in brazil they began sending these captured

00:12:50.620 africans there um and they were obviously enslaved they were not going there for jobs

00:12:55.620 they're going there um as slaves so and the more they needed a constant stream of new enslaved

00:13:03.540 people because they were building more and more things so the base of operations for the slave

00:13:08.160 trade was western central africa near indongo and the portuguese had allied with the kingdom of

00:13:13.860 congo which was uh just the north of indongo i think i said indongo was the second biggest

00:13:19.940 kingdom and congo is the biggest one and it's near where the modern day democratic republic

00:13:24.520 of the Congo is. So Congo and Indongo were already enemies, and then the Portuguese teamed up with

00:13:31.820 Congo, and so they were super powerful now, and the enemies of Njinga's country. So this made 0.97

00:13:38.380 everything pretty awful for Indongo, being surrounded by war, but also knowing that when

00:13:42.300 their people were captured in war, they would be sent across the Atlantic to Brazil. Again, quoting

00:13:48.300 antario she described the indongo that njinga was born into as a place where a rancid combination

00:13:54.940 of white people colonialism and the atlantic slave trade were tearing it apart and her grandfather

00:14:01.440 who's the angola was not equipped fundamentally as a person or alliance wise with enough troops

00:14:07.440 to save the day he just wasn't equipped he just wasn't able to i don't know if anyone could have

00:14:12.540 done it it was a really shitty situation but he kept trying um he tried a variety of methods to

00:14:17.360 handle this crisis, including diplomacy, negotiations, open warfare, but nothing he did

00:14:22.280 improved the situation. In 1593, when Njenga was 10 years old, her grandfather died and her father

00:14:29.680 Mbande became the new Angola. So this makes, well, I guess Njenga was already a princess,

00:14:35.580 but now she's like the daughter of the Angola. And this is why she's a character in the Royal

00:14:41.320 Diaries book series. This is the era that that story is written about. If you've read that book,

00:14:46.180 you'll know that growing up Njenga was her father's favorite child and frankly of course she was

00:14:52.220 because she was clearly the best one of them so this is maybe partly because as a girl he could

00:14:58.560 show favoritism to her because nobody would see her as a potential heir because this was a situation

00:15:03.200 where the sons would inherit not the daughters like literally every country we've looked at

00:15:08.180 so far I think so he could show favoritism to her but nobody that didn't mean the people would

00:15:13.420 murder her because he could he could spoil his daughter because she's not a threat to like

00:15:19.280 become the new angola after um and i say people would murder her because this is a situation 0.91

00:15:25.520 kind of like um how the ottoman empire was before suleiman changed things where it's like

00:15:31.520 the new angola was elected like people voted on who the next one would be which meant that all

00:15:37.280 the sons would have this huge battle for who was gonna get the role it wasn't like let's peaceably

00:15:43.840 i'll vote on somebody it's like if i kill all my brothers then i'll they won't have any choice

00:15:49.260 i'll have to vote for me so children got murdered when it seemed like they could draw support away 0.90

00:15:55.200 from um the angola there's gonna be i i told you trigger warning child murder so but and jingo was

00:16:04.000 cool as a child because she was a daughter. So that meant that she was not seen as a threat to

00:16:07.360 anybody in that way. She was seen as a threat to her brother because she was clearly the most

00:16:12.620 athletic, talented, smartest, and most capable of all of Mbande's children. This bothered her

00:16:17.940 brother, also called Mbande, because she was just better than him at everything. And so her father

00:16:24.680 had other wives, other concubines. He probably had a lot of children. I do not know how many

00:16:29.640 children dozens maybe and njenga was better than all of the boys from all of the other mothers

00:16:35.340 and seeing that her father just leaned into it he was really a girl dad type so he provided njenga

00:16:44.880 with military training and she was trained as a warrior to fight alongside him and she continued

00:16:49.700 to outperform her brothers in every capacity including with the battle axe which was the royal

00:16:54.860 weapon so and became her signature blade shout out to fortune fire she participated in many

00:17:03.240 official and governance duties alongside her father including legal counsels war counsels

00:17:07.260 and important rituals so it's not just that she was athletic and good at um battle and athleticism

00:17:14.080 but she's also smart and she was taught about um the behind the scenes like diplomacy type things

00:17:20.480 furthermore she was taught by visiting portuguese missionaries to read and to write

00:17:25.080 in the portuguese language so in her late teens and early 20s

00:17:30.180 and jenga led troops in various campaigns against the portuguese

00:17:33.960 so she was a woman leading troops and i think it was unusual but it wasn't unprecedented for her

00:17:43.200 to do this and i think because she was the daughter of the king everyone just kind of

00:17:47.500 went along with it and because she was so talented everyone was like yeah no clearly you're the best

00:17:51.580 person for this job so in a record from 1602 when anjinga was around 19 years old a portuguese

00:17:57.880 chronicle chronicler wrote that mbundu rebels so like they were rebelling they're describing the

00:18:04.740 portuguese as rebels because they were um trying to kick the portuguese out so to them that was a

00:18:10.920 rebellion so the portuguese chronicle wrote mbundu rebels responded to the voice of queen

00:18:15.900 and ginga their lady who always worked to build up in those whom we had conquered hatred against

00:18:21.400 the portuguese so she was not only leading successful military campaigns wielding a battle

00:18:26.920 axe herself but she was also um convincing people to switch sides to to turn against the portuguese

00:18:33.040 and to follow her because she was so persuasive um with her speeches and we're going to see that

00:18:39.300 a lot in her life so yeah her work was not just leading armies but also encouraging those enslaved

00:18:45.000 by or allied with the portuguese to change their allegiance and come follow her and they did

00:18:50.580 because it seemed like a great choice she clearly knew what she was doing um so she would go around

00:18:56.760 and people who were enslaved by the portuguese would like flee they would like escape to go and

00:19:01.200 follow her the portuguese also wrote around the same time that people found ways to resist induced

00:19:08.280 and ordered by that cunning queen who never tires of looking for ways to ruin us so they're calling

00:19:14.000 her a queen she's at this point i guess a princess um she's not a queen of anything but she

00:19:20.540 was so impressive that everyone the portuguese just kind of were like i guess she's a queen

00:19:25.060 so 1607 and jenga is 25 years old and indongo was invaded by the imbang gala a tribal band of

00:19:33.580 mercenaries known for their ferocity in battle and their religious fervor and they carried the

00:19:39.900 balance of power here in the same way as like the damaras in the rani didda story or the same as the

00:19:46.820 um the janissaries in the harem sultan story like these were people who could switch sides and

00:19:53.560 whoever they teamed up with tended to win so the imbangala were currently allied with the portuguese

00:19:59.300 so this new threat forced njinga's father to give up any attempts to reconquer his lost territory

00:20:05.480 it was just once the imbangela were against you it's like that's it somewhere around this time

00:20:11.460 njinga had a son she didn't she wasn't married i don't think she took a husband but rather she

00:20:18.420 kept a group of male concubines and also female concubines and also concubines that were neither

00:20:25.960 male nor female and we're going to talk about that in part two um so if you're thinking okay

00:20:31.160 that's just culturally how things worked for the imbundu in this era like women just had a group

00:20:34.880 of concubines cool but in fact this is not how it worked in this era and jingo was just like 1.00

00:20:40.200 here's what i'm gonna do fuck you um but because she was her father's favorite she could do what 1.00

00:20:45.040 she wanted and what she wanted was a group of um mixed gender concubines so some men in the royal 1.00

00:20:52.440 court took exception to her being so sexually open for instance one man complained that her

00:20:57.520 sexual exploits brought shame upon her father and therefore the family but you don't say that 0.99

00:21:03.500 in this time about this woman she had this guy punished by having his son murdered in front of 1.00

00:21:09.500 him then she had him murdered as well because guess what she was the favorite daughter of the 1.00

00:21:14.980 angola and even though her mother was an enslaved concubine she was and jika was super powerful she 1.00

00:21:21.380 was gonna fuck whoever she wanted and this was a culture that demanded total deference to the royal 0.98

00:21:26.280 family so that guy got was coming when she was 35 and I just want to mention I find this I love 0.99

00:21:34.220 this for this podcast and I love this for this story that Njinga's story really takes off

00:21:42.520 when she's at an age in which other people in this podcast are dead like she she's an icon of

00:21:50.300 women over age 30 being amazing. So when she was 35 years old, her father was ambushed and murdered

00:21:57.020 by his own men. And then again, kind of like in the Ottoman Empire before Suleiman changed some

00:22:03.100 stuff, succession, the kingdom came down to all the potential heirs, all murdering each other

00:22:07.520 until you see who has left. And Njinga's older brother Mbande decided to make his move to become

00:22:13.220 the new Angola. Normally, because remember their mother was a concubine, their mother was not the 0.69

00:22:19.000 first wife of their father so normally the concubine's son would have a weak claim to the

00:22:23.740 throne as compared to the sons of the first wife but he worked the political turmoil following his

00:22:28.740 father's death and i mean his father was murdered by his own men like turmoil is a mild term i think

00:22:35.440 to describe what happened so mbande turned this to his advantage he staged a coup before the

00:22:41.120 electors could assemble because remember they got to vote on who would be the new angola

00:22:44.900 so he consolidated his power by making sure he had no male relatives who might interfere

00:22:49.900 by killing off his half-brother who was his main competition killed off the rest of his

00:22:57.600 half-brother's family many prominent members of the royal court and then he came for his sisters

00:23:02.680 so Njenga had been his longtime rival because she was better at everything than him and remember

00:23:09.780 she had a son. So he murdered Njenga's little baby son. And to prevent Njenga or his other

00:23:16.280 sisters from having other sons in the future who could challenge him, he had them all forcibly

00:23:21.520 sterilized. So later in life, Njenga described this process as being done by throwing boiling

00:23:28.680 oils and herbs onto her belly so that from shock, fear, and pain, she should forever be unable to

00:23:34.100 give birth and I was like that's awful but also how would that sterilize her so I checked in with

00:23:41.940 a friend of mine I think I forget there was some other like gynecological questions I had for this

00:23:47.400 podcast anyway I have a friend who's an OBGYN to ask would that work um and she said I don't think 1.00

00:23:54.820 anything on the belly would sterilize you but if you put noxious things into the vagina and caused 0.99

00:23:59.300 an infection you could scar down the uterus and tubes and this would effectively sterilize you

00:24:04.120 and she has seen people in other african countries do this to try and induce an abortion so this this

00:24:11.740 is the sort of thing that would have happened to and jinga and if they did throw boiling oils and

00:24:16.780 herbs onto her belly even if they didn't sterilize her i will say she did not have any children for

00:24:20.980 the rest of her life and she was having sex in with people of various genders and so presumably 0.99

00:24:28.500 she would have had children if this hadn't happened so anyway this sucks this is awful 0.96

00:24:34.180 this happened to her and both of her sisters Kenbu and Fungi and if you think I hope Njenga 0.79

00:24:39.360 will avenge herself and her sisters against Mbande for doing that um she's going to um in fact

00:24:46.460 this is the beginning of a three-pronged revenge plan that is pretty exciting so after this happened

00:24:55.380 after her brother used her power and then did this to them um and jinga headed off she left

00:25:00.960 um and dongo and went to the kingdom of matamba which was nearby um also populated by umbundu

00:25:08.660 people and she was able to just kind of hang out there she stayed there for four years um and while

00:25:14.700 she was there she honed her reputation for leadership both on and off the battlefield so

00:25:18.320 she kept matamba i guess was also at war against congo and the portuguese and the imbangala so she

00:25:24.800 um just kept leading armies fighting the portuguese and recovering presumably from this

00:25:31.740 horrible medical procedure that happened to her but during these four years while she was just

00:25:37.960 kind of like building up a good reputation for herself like getting people to follow her

00:25:41.580 her brother and bonde was not doing great as the new angola he lacked military skill

00:25:47.480 and like their father was just not the leader that this kingdom needed at this point he was

00:25:54.080 though able to form an alliance with the imbangala who switched alliances pretty regularly thus was

00:25:59.320 the way of mercenary warriors but the portuguese kept making military gains and eventually things

00:26:04.240 got to a point where imbande just needed to have a sit-down peace talk with the portuguese to put

00:26:09.800 an end to all the fighting but he was like i know i'm not good at this diplomacy stuff i don't speak

00:26:15.240 portuguese very well and he was like who do i know who speaks portuguese and is good at diplomacy

00:26:20.200 stuff and he's like oh how about my sister and jenga whose baby son i killed four years ago

00:26:24.980 and then i forcibly sterilized her she'll do me a solid and he reached out to her to see if she

00:26:30.300 would act as him as an emissary for him to the portuguese and she was like okay but with

00:26:37.020 conditions so the conditions were she demanded the authority to negotiate in her in his name

00:26:42.340 like that she would be able to actually make decisions at this meeting she wouldn't just like

00:26:47.280 be sending messages and then second she said if it comes up she wanted to have permission to be

00:26:53.380 baptized christian if that would help and then third she demanded a massive entourage to accompany

00:27:00.560 her and mbande was like yes yes and yes and so njinga age 38 headed off to give on the best

00:27:08.620 diplomatic mission in world history she headed off to luanda where the portuguese were stationed

00:27:16.640 which is like right right on the coast um and she was accompanied by the massive entourage that she

00:27:21.300 had gotten from her brother which included military escort musicians enslaved people to offer as gifts

00:27:26.440 to the portuguese and a whole glam squad to help take care of her because i haven't mentioned this 0.99

00:27:31.080 yet but in jingo was a fashion girl and she knew the value of making a grand entrance wherever she 0.99

00:27:36.020 went she was always looking good while indongo leaders usually would meet the portuguese dressed

00:27:43.220 in western clothing to like in portuguese european style clothing to sort of show deference to them

00:27:49.100 and to be like we're like you but instead and jingo was like this is her met gala moment

00:27:53.880 so she chose to wear opulent traditional clothing including feathers and jewels um so dressing in

00:27:59.820 this like indongo style and this is her way to display that their culture was not inferior

00:28:05.200 and also she knew this outfit looked amazing on her and so she entered luanda carried on the

00:28:12.360 shoulders of her male attendants in this outfit feathers just like hello it's me and jinga like

00:28:20.780 i'm surrounded by like i don't even know thousands of people so and this procession

00:28:26.480 into luanda was so memorable everyone who saw it and knew how to write wrote about it later because

00:28:32.460 she had arrived so this massive group was welcomed by the portuguese with a military salute etc

00:28:40.600 and they were so impressive looking and the portuguese wanted to make a good impression so

00:28:45.060 they offered to house them and paid for their visit and it does show that this meeting was

00:28:50.680 being done in good faith and just so we know everyone's name the portuguese governor at this

00:28:55.760 time was joao correa de susa so when it came to begin negotiations and jenga arrived in her

00:29:02.680 ensemble her fabulous outfit and i'll put pictures on instagram as well there's some pictures of what

00:29:09.120 her outfits look like that people from around this time drew and they are fabulous yeah so she

00:29:14.740 was relying not on dressing like portuguese in order to show that she was a lady but rather

00:29:20.440 just through her comportment you know her posture her sort of like the fancy way she held herself 0.60

00:29:25.260 she made it clear that she was royalty yeah so she arrived i'm gonna assume just like paused 0.72

00:29:33.060 to just pose in the doorway i'm literally draped in jewels on both arms and legs and a fabulous 0.99

00:29:38.200 outfit she's known for wearing lots and lots of bangles and bracelets on her arms and legs 0.76

00:29:42.520 so technically she was there to represent her brother but she as i think you can imagine

00:29:48.600 quickly made this all about her so joao de souza pulled a trick that enjinga knew to expect because

00:29:57.000 the portuguese always did this thinking they were clever so he was sitting in a fancy velvet chair

00:30:01.220 but only set out a mat on the ground for enjinga to sit on this would obviously give him the higher 0.74

00:30:06.000 status and make her have lower status and njinga knew that this was coming she had already knew it

00:30:11.560 she had a plan and she's like i'm not doing that not when i'm dressed in this outfit not when i'm 0.96

00:30:17.220 here as equals and so she just like made a motion to one of her attendants um because they already

00:30:25.140 planned this ahead and the attendant got down on all fours and njinga sat on her back as a human 0.79

00:30:29.320 chair and stayed like that throughout the negotiations which maybe took hours and note 0.74

00:30:33.440 i'm using the word attendant but i mean enslaved person is whose back she's sitting on yeah so

00:30:39.540 they started having this conversation and and jingo was like look you know my brother and

00:30:44.640 like he's just youthful he's just he's a young angola he doesn't know what he was doing no he

00:30:51.540 was like 40 years old but you know boys will be boys she's like any mistakes he's done are just

00:30:55.920 the mistakes of youth so like let's be friends and work together um joao was like okay but

00:31:03.200 you your brother has to pay annual tribute like money and gift to the portuguese because you are

00:31:08.460 vassal state and jingo was like no because you haven't conquered indongo and you only get 0.60

00:31:14.340 tributes when you conquer somebody and then they're like oh i don't know if we can have this

00:31:19.980 peace agreement then if you're not going to offer us you know gifts and tributes and she's like

00:31:24.420 because remember she got permission for this she's like but what if i agree to study the bible and

00:31:29.660 then let you baptize me publicly and that was a huge deal and they're like yes okay let's do that 0.99

00:31:36.700 oh and by the way when they left the room after this hours of negotiation the the enslaved woman

00:31:41.660 was still or man was still on all fours on the ground being the human chair and joao was like

00:31:46.380 are you gonna like let your that person get up now or what and then jenga was like i'm royalty i never 0.96

00:31:52.720 sit on the same chair twice and i have lots more and then joao was like oh shit this woman is like 0.98

00:31:58.620 the real deal. And so then she stayed in Luanda for six months as they worked at this peace 0.97

00:32:03.160 agreement slash she was taught about Christianity and the Bible. And apparently she took to it

00:32:08.860 very enthusiastically. And then she was baptized in a huge public event. She took the baptismal

00:32:14.700 name, Ana de Sousa, named after her godparents. So Ana de Silva was a woman who she'd stayed with

00:32:21.500 while she was there. And then the governor, Joao de Souza. So in terms of names, I didn't mention

00:32:29.120 this earlier on. So sometimes Nzinga was like name fluid, like she herself would write her name

00:32:36.440 with many different spellings. So Nzinga is the pronunciation that I'm using. It's what was used

00:32:43.180 in the biography of her I read. But sometimes it's written as Nzinga with a Z for a Z if you're

00:32:50.900 american sometimes she wrote her name sometimes she signed her name as as anna or sometimes she

00:32:55.060 was like anna and zinga like she just kind of like her name would was changeable to her and

00:33:03.240 she would use the anna de silva name when she was corresponding with um christian people often to

00:33:09.820 just be like hey it's me remember i was baptized anyway so that six months in luanda doing all

00:33:14.280 this stuff and later she would remember these months as a time of profound happiness and

00:33:18.300 extraordinary peace for her and after what she'd experienced like of course it was she got to just

00:33:23.900 like chill out there like use her gifts be valuable um she figured a way for peace between

00:33:28.760 indongo and portugal but also got um an agreement from portuguese for peace between themselves and 0.94

00:33:36.960 metamba which was the other kingdom where she had been living so indigo wasn't even the queen of

00:33:41.620 there but she got peace for there as well but while this is happening don't think i've forgotten

00:33:47.080 and she had not forgotten about her three-pronged revenge plan because this was part of it in fact

00:33:52.060 because she had made such an impression with this diplomatic mission with her outfits um

00:33:57.660 with the human chair that it made her brother look really useless and it was just kind of like well

00:34:03.960 why isn't she in charge when she's so good at everything and when she returned to indongo

00:34:09.040 everyone was like shouldn't you be in charge like even her brother was like i'm gonna name you my

00:34:15.880 heir instead of my son or until my son comes of age sort of thing so ultimately she like in terms

00:34:24.760 of fashion history like is this the first example of a throne being lost to a makeover montage

00:34:30.280 potentially despite her success in these negotiations with the portuguese the peace 0.77

00:34:35.280 between indongo and the imbengala collapsed so indongo was cool with the portuguese but

00:34:42.720 the Mbangala were like oh you're cool the Portuguese were we're not cool with you anymore 0.93

00:34:46.780 so the Mbangala was just always kind of changing who they're allied with that's their thing 0.93

00:34:50.020 and then because of this uh there was a series of defeats and then the Ndongo royalty aka

00:34:55.780 Mbande and Njenga were driven out of their court so Mbande was sent into exile in his absence the

00:35:02.900 Mbangala established what they called the kingdom of Kisanje which so now it was like under Mbangala

00:35:09.280 rule the Portuguese refused to help Mbande and Nginga against the Mbangala where they were like

00:35:16.160 we won't help you unless Mbande is able to recapture the capital city of Cabasa and Mbande

00:35:22.700 has to get baptized so Mbande like to his credit he retook Cabasa in 1623 and he took tentative

00:35:30.260 steps towards Christianity and being baptized but he was understandably distrustful of the Portuguese

00:35:36.380 and actually this is part two of Njinga's revenge plan against him for killing her son

00:35:40.700 and sterilizing her so get ready so Mbandai had by now like come to rely heavily on her as an

00:35:48.680 advisor he listened attentively to everything she said because she clearly knew what she was doing

00:35:54.040 and was better at everything than him and so she convinced him that it would be humiliating for the

00:35:59.240 king of Ndongo to submit to a foreign power and would amount to a betrayal of their customs if

00:36:04.060 he got baptized that would cause all of his supporters to abandon him so if this seems like

00:36:09.140 a bit much coming from the person who had just gone through a fairly strategic baptism remember

00:36:14.960 that in jenga's private plan here was to undermine her brother to get rid of him so she could become

00:36:20.980 the new leader and so she could avenge the murder of her son so everything she said was like it could

00:36:27.740 be true but also a great part of a revenge plan and this is part of what's great about in jenga

00:36:32.820 why not do both so things were not going well for Mbande psychologically he didn't get baptized

00:36:39.460 and his rule was going badly he fell into a deep depression and I think a similar thing

00:36:45.120 happened to their father so it's um maybe a family inherited tendency anyway so he was forced

00:36:53.540 to cede many of his duties to Njinga because he was not able to do stuff because he was just in

00:36:57.940 such a depression next thing you know he had died of mysterious causes um which were rumored to be

00:37:06.080 he might have poisoned himself to death or maybe someone else poisoned him um i feel like if njinga

00:37:14.820 didn't directly poison him then her manipulations might have led him to take his own life but before

00:37:21.420 he died he had made it clear that njinga should be his successor and so she was at this point

00:37:27.620 age 41 and time for part three of her revenge plan like yeah i know her brother is dead but she's

00:37:36.120 she's still going and jinga moved like her brother had quickly to consolidate her rule so nobody

00:37:42.000 would challenge her so there's a whole well luckily and bondi had killed all of the brothers

00:37:46.020 so like the people who would challenge her were not as direct links as she was like she was still

00:37:51.520 the daughter of the previous two angolas ago and she had so many supporters right because she had

00:37:57.540 been at this game for a long time she had been leading armies like she had supporters so she got

00:38:02.460 them to seize the ritual objects associated with the monarchy so these were things uh that would

00:38:09.240 eliminate her opponents at court if she like was in possession of these items and she also just

00:38:14.020 assumed the title of angola she was just like hey guess who's the angola it's me i just declared it

00:38:19.560 myself and so again before her this had i'm gonna say always but there might have been a

00:38:27.400 woman before because the records i haven't seen all the records i don't know if they're all in

00:38:31.040 existence so the leaders before her had all been men i think so again it's a bit of a ronnie ditta

00:38:36.560 energy of just taking the title and being like guess who has a title now me it's not just a

00:38:42.280 title for men now it's a title for me also she arranged an opulent funeral for her brother

00:38:47.100 and some of his remains were preserved in a portable shrine so i'm not sure if that's like

00:38:52.520 an urn sort of thing but something you could carry around and this is part of the spiritual

00:38:57.320 beliefs of of her people so like she would carry the remains around in this portable shrine so she

00:39:04.680 could consult with them and we're going to get to that later because does she consult with

00:39:09.060 does her brother's spirit possess somebody who then gives her advice yes coming up later so she

00:39:16.160 said about doing the same sort of thing and bonnet had done when he took over like just getting rid 0.96

00:39:19.260 of anyone who opposed her and at this point i'm like who at this point who are these foolish people

00:39:24.440 who wouldn't see that first of all she was the best choice to be the angola and second of all

00:39:29.580 who would cross her with her reputation and it was of course men from other noble families

00:39:35.500 so it was like her brother had killed all of the potential heirs from their father but these were

00:39:40.940 like further flung relatives i don't know cousins or whatever and as per mbundu tradition and jinga

00:39:48.340 and also her brother neither of them had a direct right to the throne because they were children of

00:39:52.740 enslaved wives not the first wife so these were people who felt they had a better claim and also

00:39:57.120 were men but she countered their argument she's so good with her words so claimed that well she

00:40:04.560 was properly descended from the main royal line through her father as opposed to her rivals who 0.73

00:40:08.880 had no bloodline connection but her opponents were like yes but you're a woman and we're men

00:40:13.900 the same thing that happens in every story every society in the world

00:40:18.140 and then also the fact that she had negotiated with a portuguese was seen by some people as

00:40:24.800 a sign of weakness like she told imbande people would think um people didn't like some of the

00:40:30.740 terms of the treaty that she had created with them and so this this was a succession crisis

00:40:36.020 like she didn't just swoop in and everyone's like great let's go um people were not cool

00:40:40.960 with her being there and as this happened relations between indongo and portugal uh

00:40:46.220 started to get bad again so Njinga didn't want war and there was a new Portuguese governor like

00:40:53.040 during this story there's like 10 different Portuguese governors because none of them

00:40:56.360 could handle Njinga the new Portuguese governor also nobody wanted war but it was becoming

00:41:03.920 increasingly increasingly obvious that that was probably going to happen in late 1624 the new

00:41:10.480 governor began a campaign to force local nobles to become Portuguese vassals and I used that word

00:41:15.920 before and i will define it because i had to look this up for myself too a vassal is a holder of

00:41:21.160 land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and alliance so you're a land owner but you're

00:41:26.860 subordinate to someone else so it's making themselves subordinate to the portuguese

00:41:30.420 and that's what the portuguese wanted all these people to do um and then he also demanded that

00:41:36.180 njinga should submit herself as a vassal to portugal which she obviously refused to weaken

00:41:42.480 the portuguese colonial administration and jenga dispatched messengers to encourage mbundu people 0.70

00:41:48.300 enslaved the portuguese to flee and join her kingdom thereby depriving the colony of its

00:41:52.940 income and manpower and this happened these enslaved people were like hell yeah um and escaped

00:41:59.880 the portuguese complained about these escapes being like hey a bunch of our enslaved people

00:42:05.780 are escaping and jenga was like okay like as per our treaty i will return any escaped

00:42:11.500 slaves but I don't see any escape slaves here do you see any escape slaves here I don't think

00:42:16.260 there's any escape slaves here so good for her oh and don't think I forgot revenge part three

00:42:22.620 so before he died so Mbande had his son and heir was a seven-year-old boy whose name I don't know

00:42:30.660 I'm gonna guess Mbande because that's the family name so he turned the seven-year-old son and heir

00:42:35.940 over to the Mbangala for safekeeping so this was before those two they stopped working together

00:42:41.360 anyway so he had a son the imbengala were keeping him safe um and training him up to be a warrior

00:42:47.500 under the guardianship of an imbengala man called kasa and basically in jenga wanted to kill this

00:42:54.400 son she wanted to kill this boy as a repercussion of imbanda having killed her son like an eye for

00:43:00.220 an eye type situation so she was like hey can i just like hang out with my nephew and the imbengala

00:43:04.920 are like no you're obviously going to kill him and she's like but can i hang out with my nephew 0.60

00:43:09.380 visit him they're like no and so what she figured out she had to do was to seduce kassa the guardian 0.62

00:43:17.240 of the boy in order to get close to her nephew to kill him so linda haywood in her biography 0.99

00:43:24.100 describes this perfectly and i'm just going to quote her so njinga used her wiles and wealth

00:43:28.660 to persuade kassa she was passionately in love with him displaying her affection publicly and

00:43:33.260 showering him with gifts at first kassa resisted disturbed that njinga was older than he was

00:43:38.000 and convinced that she wanted to marry him only to get her hands on the boy but eventually he

00:43:42.940 agreed to a union and to surrender the boy her young nephew accompanied casa to the site of the 0.99

00:43:48.700 wedding the ceremony wasn't even over before and jinga seized the little boy murdered him 0.99

00:43:53.180 threw his body in the kwanzaa river and declared that she had revenged her son

00:43:57.080 and jinga also killed many of her other relatives who were in attendance so murder wedding like 0.58

00:44:05.520 this is like game of thrones red wedding except one woman just in jinga and she's the bride like 0.98

00:44:13.460 she convinced this guy to marry her just so that she could lure all her enemies to the wedding

00:44:18.440 and then kill them during the wedding this is the point where i was just like oh this is a

00:44:25.340 this is at fredigan level this is like fredigan wishes level bear that mind when we're squaring 0.99

00:44:32.520 her for scandalousness and also scheminess but so with all those people her revenge plan done 1.00

00:44:39.180 she could move on to just really focusing on ruling and getting rid of other threats but

00:44:44.200 despite her overall excellence at everything including murder wedding planning um the mbundu 0.99

00:44:50.340 nobles didn't like her so this is giving me damaras from ronnie did a story again they didn't 0.98

00:44:56.000 like her policies because those threatened their income somehow and so soon rebellions against her 0.98

00:45:00.600 rule broke out her most dangerous rival was called hari a ndango and he opposed having a woman rule

00:45:07.280 the kingdom get it together honestly she attempted to crush his rebellion but failed and this made

00:45:14.520 her look weaker and that convinced more nobles to revolt against her so she attempted to negotiate 0.80

00:45:18.560 with the portuguese uh while she gathered more forces to try and you know defeat the rebels in 0.88

00:45:24.840 her own country but the portuguese guess this was a delaying tactic and then they recognized

00:45:29.680 hari atundango as the new angola and then the portuguese declared war on enjinga

00:45:37.460 in 1626 like they just declared war on her as a person which is like wild but also

00:45:45.260 like yeah she's basically has the power of a country so they declared war on her as a person

00:45:50.780 she still had all these supporters though remember so facing this portuguese invasion

00:45:55.960 she gathered her army and withdrew to a group of islands in the kwanzaa river and this is where

00:46:00.800 she decided to use her brother's relics so remember how she like got baptized that was

00:46:06.600 kind of like a jk not really like she clearly got baptized just to make the peace treaty happen she

00:46:12.560 wasn't like i am now a christian and i believe all this stuff like she's and she's gonna make

00:46:16.800 this shift a couple other times in the story like she's very mercenary is that the word where she

00:46:21.440 just kind of like knew what how she needed to present herself in order to get what she needed

00:46:25.480 in order to succeed so like she's completely not christian anymore to the point that so she's got

00:46:30.120 her brother's relics with her and so she took part in a ritual like a mbundu ritual where his spirit

00:46:37.580 possessed a priest um so she could talk to him so she's talking to basically the ghost of her

00:46:44.920 brother um who in life she'd hated and who she kind of is responsible for him having died anyway

00:46:52.420 but as a ghost he was seemingly much more helpful and chill now um through the priest and bonday's

00:46:57.440 ghost told her that she must refuse to become a vassal to the portuguese at any cost and that

00:47:02.540 was better to retain one's liberty through flight than to submit to the enemy and she took his ghost

00:47:07.660 advice um and then honored her brother by sacrificing 14 young women on his grave but by

00:47:13.100 taking and then following the ghost advice that made her followers be more trusting of her because

00:47:18.580 they saw that she had the blessings of the ancestors to continue resisting the portuguese

00:47:21.940 after a series of battles she was defeated and forced to make a long march into eastern indongo

00:47:28.400 during this retreat she was forced to abandon most of her followers but this actually was strategic

00:47:34.200 because the portuguese army was frankly more interested in recapturing the escaped enslaved

00:47:39.720 people than they were in pursuing her army so she kind of sacrificed them to save herself and then

00:47:45.260 she and her followers escaped i'm not sure where they were but under the cover of darkness they

00:47:50.120 avoided the detection of the portuguese troops surrounding the island where they were hiding out

00:47:53.980 after taking some time to regroup and shore up supporting the eastern part of her kingdom

00:47:57.680 she came back stronger than ever and then she spent the next three years harassing and striking

00:48:03.780 against the portuguese who were becoming increasingly alarmed over the fact that she

00:48:08.560 would just not go away and was amazing and then the portuguese suffered a setback when their

00:48:15.840 puppet king haria indongo died of smallpox and they had to find a new king of indongo and they

00:48:23.260 chose a guy called angola hari not haria indongo angola hari um another indongo nobleman with

00:48:30.720 basically the same name because this is the vulgar history podcast and there's always repeated names

00:48:35.720 anyway angola hari proved to be an unpopular leader who viewed him like correctly as a

00:48:42.740 portuguese puppet some nobles welcomed his rule but he wasn't very good so a divide soon formed

00:48:48.480 inside the kingdom of indongo in which the common people and lesser nobles supported enjinga while

00:48:53.400 the powerful nobles supported angola hari and the portuguese november 1627 enjinga attempted to

00:49:00.540 negotiate with the portuguese again sending a peace delegation along with a gift of 400 enslaved 0.70

00:49:05.140 people she indicated that she was willing to become a vassal of the kingdom of portugal and

00:49:09.820 pay tribute if they supported her claim to the throne but she was adamant that she was the

00:49:14.420 rightful queen of indango the portuguese rejected the offer in fact they beheaded her lead diplomat

00:49:20.220 which okay um and they issued the counter demand that she retire from private life renounce her

00:49:25.960 claim to the kingdom and submit to angola harry as rightful king and jig is like yeah no so faced

00:49:33.080 with the realization that the portuguese were against her many indanganobles stood against her

00:49:39.300 and jinga like her father and her brother slipped into depression locking herself into a room for

00:49:44.420 several weeks but she emerged and within a month had begun a new campaign to rebuild her alliances

00:49:51.320 again because she could not be stopped and i think part of it was while she was rebuilding her

00:49:57.120 strength like while she was locked alone in the room just like thinking i guess she took advantage

00:50:01.680 of N'Golahari's political weakness, highlighting his lack of political experience. And in fact,

00:50:06.340 N'Golahari was despised by both his nobles and the Portuguese allies. For while previous kings

00:50:11.160 of Indango had all been warriors, N'Golahari had no soldiers of his own and was forced to rely on

00:50:15.680 Portuguese soldiers. N'Golahari and the Portuguese launched a counter-propaganda campaign against

00:50:21.580 N'Jinga. I don't know if this is a pamphlets moment. It might be more like a gossip rumors

00:50:26.520 spoken campaign they were hoping to use her gender as a mean to delegitimize her strength 1.00

00:50:32.900 like the only thing they could say against her is she's a woman and her to her followers they're 1.00

00:50:37.260 like yeah and she's great she's a woman and she's great we don't mind that she's a woman

00:50:41.900 um this anyway the propaganda backfired because she increasingly outmaneuvered angola harry

00:50:49.020 politically because she's amazing at everything in one notable incident anjinga sent angola harry

00:50:56.060 threatening letters and a collection of items considered to be inhabited by spirits and she

00:51:01.080 challenged him to combat the messages terrified him called on his portuguese allies for support 0.98

00:51:06.560 which diminished his own prestige while adding to enjinga's reputation so she's just like

00:51:11.040 doing everything she can to just like psychologically destroy him and he was

00:51:15.500 already clearly pretty fragile but she was still unable to directly face the portuguese in battle

00:51:20.640 because she didn't have enough troops by late 1628 her army had been greatly reduced down to

00:51:25.800 around 200 soldiers perhaps and she had been effectively expelled from entongo following her

00:51:32.460 expulsion she and her supporters continued to fight against the portuguese in 1629 the queen

00:51:38.520 was dealt a crushing blow her camp was invaded by the enemy and she was able to escape by in a pretty

00:51:44.780 awesome sequence rappelling down a cliff into a ravine using some sort of vine her sisters

00:51:51.140 Cambu and Fungi, who had been with her this whole time, were both captured by the Portuguese.

00:51:56.100 So Cambu and Fungi were the closest thing she had to social peers. Well, they were. They were

00:52:00.260 her closest friends, they were her sisters, and they were the only people who really understood

00:52:04.380 what was going on with her. They were also the only people she fully trusted.

00:52:09.800 She learned that they had been captured, and not just that, that they were being

00:52:13.020 forcibly converted to Christianity, and Njinga swore that she wouldn't rest until she rescued 0.96

00:52:19.840 them and that is where I'm going to leave things for now because this is a goddamn two-part episode 0.64

00:52:26.920 because this story just keeps going it always feels weird to end an episode without having

00:52:31.780 a scoring but truly can't wait for how this scoring is going to go it is there's already

00:52:40.000 so much and this is just halfway through the story like I can't wait so all the regular reminders for

00:52:47.780 everybody oh yeah well we haven't yet found anybody who we'll wait to the end of the story

00:52:53.440 to see if anyone deserves the lady jane semer memorial award for outstanding supporting

00:52:57.040 performance i mean at this point there's not really anyone who i would give that to

00:53:03.220 maybe her sisters but we haven't heard much about them yet maybe next week we'll see

00:53:06.720 um yeah so please suggest people who you think would be good subjects for

00:53:12.720 another episode of vulgar history i'm really keen to learn about cool new people

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