Queen Nefertari’s Egypt: Closing Notes on Women’s Power in Pre-Colonial African Civilizations

During the exhibition and programming for Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, audiences and scholars continue to raise questions around the roles of women’s power and influence within ancient Egyptian forms of governance. Join us for a closing panel discussion that continues to tease out some of the details around Queen Nefertari’s leadership, while also taking into consideration a wider history of women’s influence within pre-colonial Africa. Drawing on their individual bodies of work and research, Dr. Solange Ashby (President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA), Dr. Bright Alozie (Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Portland State University) and Debora Heard (Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, specializing in Nubian Archaeology at the University of Chicago) will continue to think through varying forms of women’s leadership in ancient African Civilizations.
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[@lf1496]

It's about time that Egypt is being put in its proper place as an African civilization connected to Nubia. They are a cluster culture, linked by blood and culture.. When my Afro Cuban father, a descendant of a Yoruba Nigerian man, did his DNA and found he shared DNA with Ramsees III I was not surprised at all. Egypt was an African civilization created by African people with women being seen through the prism of an African world view. African women are central to the societies on the continent. This is how Egypt must be viewed, through an African paradym. I am a proud YORUBA Nigerian descendant linked to the Nile Valley as well

[@amronemhb2448]

That DNA does not mean much! It’s just shows somemsubsharan gene in ancient Egypt, do not mean a link or that they are sub Saharan. Studies showed ancient Egyptians closer to west Asians in Anatolia and Mesopotamia. And you are not linked to the Nile valley! We are separated by the desert , with no links!

[@Kemet3.0]

Those evil people tried to trick and hide that this wasn't us. Both are one African black civilization they tried to steal.

[@Snapshot803]

It was called Kmt, Kemet, Ta Meri!