These great powerful women of the ancient African continent continue to fascinate and intrigue. Whilst the world became obsessed with the findings and wonders of the pyramids and their contents the thousands of stories of the individual lives of these black people remain largely untaught, filtered and often biased.
Kandake was the royal title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, which was an ancient Nubian state centred on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and the River Atbara in what is now the Republic of Sudan.
The Kingdom was a prosperous land ruled from the capital, Meroe. The Kandakes were also known as Nubian warrior queens, queen regents, and ruling queen mothers. They controlled what are now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt.
Kandake was a Meroitic term for the sister of the king of Kush who would bear the next heir according to the matrilineal succession. It was used as a royal title or dynastic name. It is sometimes translated into E
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