Editing Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (section)

==Further reading==
*[[Patricia McKissack]], ''Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595''; The Royal Diaries Collection (2000)
*David Birmingham, ''Trade and Conquest in Angola'' ([[Oxford University Press|Oxford]], 1966).
*Heywood, Linda and [[John K. Thornton]], ''Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Making of the Americas, 1580–1660'' ([[Cambridge University Press|Cambridge]], 2007). This contains the most detailed account of her reign and times, based on a careful examination of all the relevant documentation.
*Heywood, Linda M. ''Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen''. Harvard University Press, 2017.
*Saccardo, Grazziano, ''Congo e Angola con la storia dell'antica missione dei cappuccini''. 3 Volumes, ([[Venice]], 1982–83)
*Williams, Chancellor, ''Destruction of Black Civilization'' (WCP)
*Nzinga, the Warrior Queen (a play written by Elizabeth Orchardson Mazrui and published by The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], 2006).
**The play is based on Nzinga and discusses issues of [[colonisation]], traditional African rulership, women leadership versus male leadership, political succession, struggles between various Portuguese socio-political, and economic interest groups, struggles between the vested interests of the Jesuits and the Capuchins, etc.
*Kenny Mann, ''West Central Africa: Kongo, Ndongo'' (''African Kingdoms of the Past''). Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press, 1996.