NYABYINSHI - The warrior virgin princess

Although African history is slowly being suppressed, distorted, or ignored by the ungrateful modern world, some African traditions are persistent and have vowed to crush the power of deception that the Western academic establishment holds about our own culture.

From Nyabyinshi to Nyabingi
This fascinating warrior lady today is known to Sudanese as Nyabongi or Nyandingi; she is also known in Uganda and Rwanda as Nyabingi. Rastafarians or Nya men – linking themselves to the anti-colonial Ugandan movement, Nyabingi, which called for “Death to White Oppressors” call her Nyabinghi. As we have seen above, her original name was Nyabyinshi.

She was called Nyabyinshi in order to hide the fact the Ndahiro had sexual intercourse while he was in exile. It was a crime for a King in exile to fornicate. How did she become Nyabingi and how did she become a symbol of warriors?

a Film by @bob_chris_the_blackjudah