| Queen Nzinga: Live Forever Via Us!!! Queen Nzinga: Live Forever Via Us!!! "Nzinga knew that every white man in Africa was an enemy of the Blacks. It was a matter about which there was no room for debate in her mind. Even the holy robes of the priests in Angola not only covered their real mission as agents of the Portugese Empire, but also covered their lust for the Black bodies of their helpless so-called slave girls.
Nzinga continued her campaign against the Portugese, winning victories everywhere where a battle was joined. The Queen was further outraged over the success of the Portugese in capturing obth of her younger sisters. This gave the enemy a most powerful bargaining weapon. Yet she continued to reject all of their principal demands, with the result that her sisters, to whom she was deeply devoted, remained in capitivity for many years. Nzinga was particularly ruthless with captured Black chiefs who were allies of the whites. She did not hesitate to sell such chiefs and their followers into slavery... she was one of the first Blacks to see that the Portugese conquests, the trade of prisoners-of-war, and the church were all inseparably, one and the same. The long years of warfare had been equally against all three, the unholy Trinity. She never surrended to any."
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pg 141 in Robinson, Battle & Robinson's The Journey of the Songhai People |