Learning about a Woman Queen in Africa: Njinga (1583-1663) as an Ecological Human Rights Defender and a Sister Against Turbulent Times of Racism and War: An Ecolinguistic Study

Njinga (1582 Ndongo-December 1663 Matamba) was a female black warrior from the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of Mbundu people known as Angola today where Portuguese is official language communication. She criticized for assisting Portuguese, being cannibal, contributing to African slave trade. could speak several languages. daughter King Kiluanji. However, according movie on her, she freed her country invaders during turbulent times war racism, leading slavery (see Graciano (director movie), 2013). In this study, representations good strategist politician in directed by (2013) comics prepared published UNESCO (comic strip text Serbin Joubeaud, 2014) will be compared an ecocritical point view mining are also means nature devastation, pandemics, discrimination, wars. Arran Stibbe’s (2015 2021) ecological discourse analysis strategies used divide sentences Njinga’s acts into three categories those related (1) destructive discourse, (2) ambivalent (3) beneficial relation environmental ethics, keeping mind Halliday’s (1994) “metafunctions” categorized (a) “ideational,” (d) “interpersonal,” (c) “textual” (as cited Gong Liu, 2018).