Editing Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (section)

===Sources===
Nzinga is one of Africa's best documented early-modern rulers. About a dozen of her own letters are known (all but one published in Brásio, ''Monumenta'' volumes 6–11 and 15 passim). In addition, her early years are well described in the correspondence of Portuguese governor [[Fernão de Sousa]], who was in the colony from 1624 to 1631 (published by Heintze). Her later activities are documented by the Portuguese chronicler [[António de Oliveira de Cadornega]], and by two [[Italians|Italian]] [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|Capuchin]] priests, [[Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo]] and [[Antonio Gaeta da Napoli]], who resided in her court from 1658 until her death (Cavazzi presided at her funeral). Cavazzi included a number of [[watercolour]]s in his manuscript which include Njinga as a central figure, as well as himself. However, Cavazzi's account is peppered with a number of pejorative statements about Nzinga for which he does not offer factual evidence, such as her cannibalism.

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* Baur, John. "2000 Years of Christianity in Africa – An African Church History" (Nairobi, 2009), {{ISBN|9966-21-110-1}}, pp.&nbsp;74–75
* Burness, Donald. "'Nzinga Mbandi’ and Angolan Independence." Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 1977, pp. 225–229. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3513061.
* Cadornega, António de Oliveira de. ''História geral das guerras angolanas (1680–81)''. mod. ed. José Matias Delgado and Manuel Alves da Cunha. 3 vols. (Lisbon, 1940–42) (reprinted 1972).
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* Gaeta da Napoli, Antonio. ''La Meravigliosa Conversione alla santa Fede di Christo delle Regina Singa...''(Naples, 1668).
* Heintze, Beatrix. ''Fontes para a história de Angola no século XVII.'' (2 vols, Wiesbaden, 1985–88) Contains the correspondence of Fernão de Souza.
* Heywood, Linda. "Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen." (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2017).
* Miller, Joseph C. “Nzinga of Matamba in a New Perspective.” The Journal of African History, vol. 16, no. 2, 1975, pp.&nbsp;201–216. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/180812.
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