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Jinga's Legacy
Soye: Jinga's legacy carried on by later rulers of indongo and matamba, including other women who resisted portuguese encroachment into the eighteenth century. Stories of jinga's resistance to the portuguese endured most recently as organized anti colonial movements emerged in the mid twentieth century. Soye: She has become part of a deeper dismantling of empire and patriarchy while articulating and imagining ongoing black liberation struggles. And it's going to be fascinating to follow how jingA's legacy is celebrated and utilized moving forward, as her story spreads.