Details about the life of Kandake Amanishakheto have fallen into obscurity. She is remembered as a great queen of Kush and is known as a great warrior and pyramid builder; particularly at the Wad ban Naqa site that served as the seat of the Kushite/Nubian Kingdom.
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.
Queen Amina was a warrior and ruler of Zazzau, a Hausa city-state which dominated the trans-Saharan trade after the collapse of the Songhai empire in what is now Northern Nigeria. She led an army of 20,000 soldiers, conquering towns to the north and south in the Nupe and Jukun kingdoms, and through Kasashen Bauch
