Mighty Queen, your people have been captured and sold into slavery. In the end, not even your bravery could stop the march of foreign crowns. Yet, ever faced with threats both inside and out, the never-ending war took its toll. Together you turned back the army of the Portuguese at the Battle of Kombi. When the Portuguese invaded your lands you escaped death and shrewdly manipulated the Dutch into sending you aid.

You defied tradition by claiming two thrones and are remembered for standing bravely against the onslaught of Imperialism. Your Kingdom is part of the great Kingdom of Kongo, situated at the mouth of the mighty Congo River in central Africa. Greetings brave Nzinga, Queen of the Ndongo and Matamba, your beauty is matched only by your cunning. She is noted for entering into the first African-European alliance against another European nation, an example of her shrewd diplomatic acumen, as well as her military success against the Portuguese. She is one of Africa's best documented early-modern rulers. Nzinga Mbande was a 17th century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in southwestern Africa.

The kingdom consisted of several core provinces ruled by the Manikongo, but its sphere of influence extended to neighboring kingdoms, such as Ngoyo, Kakongo, Ndongo and Matamba. At its greatest extent, it reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Kwango River in the east, and from the Congo River in the north to the Kwanza River in the south. The Kingdom of Kongo (KiKongo: 'Wene wa Kongo') was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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