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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Jul 29

    This is the story of Queen Amina, the Warrior Queen:pic.twitter.com/EeeLO9d6es

    Queen Amina: Nigerian warrior queen
    Queen Amina is the third story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.
    3:26 AM - 29 Jul 2018
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    • glossy Nwando Ofokansi Alexandra Tohme Khanya-Lunga Mntambo LNMU KOFI CJ Ibrahim Hamman Safian RF20
    40 replies 1,148 retweets 1,640 likes
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      2. THE MULKAH FOUNDATION UK‏ @mulkah_inc Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Thank you for the series, I asked earlier in the week, how true is the story that she would be with initimate with the prisoners and then kill them off the next day?! That’s not something a #Queen would do! Please kindly clarify

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. Sa'daatul husband‏ @Alidinar2 Jul 29
        Replying to @mulkah_inc @BBCAfrica

        Twisted story

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      4. THE MULKAH FOUNDATION UK‏ @mulkah_inc Jul 29
        Replying to @Alidinar2 @BBCAfrica

        I know right? Would a queen 👸🏾 do that? And then the fact that a Muslimah ?! Come on now bbc ,, do better !!!

        2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
      5. Sa'daatul husband‏ @Alidinar2 Jul 29
        Replying to @mulkah_inc @BBCAfrica

        they intended to berry her martyrdom. & you expect us to buy that from you. Soon @MarvelStudios might twist it worst

        0 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
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      2. Joy Nnenna‏ @JoyJoyvillez Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        The part of spending a night with a man and having him executed the next morning is really scary. She must have had mercury flowing in her vessels instead of blood

        2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      3. Valhalla‏ @Valhall13908642 Jul 29
        Replying to @JoyJoyvillez @BBCAfrica

        How many men did the same thing in the long women's history of submission ?!

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Joy Nnenna‏ @JoyJoyvillez Jul 29
        Replying to @Valhall13908642 @BBCAfrica

        Does it make it normal? I can’t praise such ruthlessness be it from a man or a woman. It’s not a debate topic.

        2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
      5. Valhalla‏ @Valhall13908642 Jul 29
        Replying to @JoyJoyvillez @BBCAfrica

        In that time it was normal To display such a violent behaviour! Many men we probably all admire did even worse than that To women!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Joy Nnenna‏ @JoyJoyvillez Jul 29
        Replying to @Valhall13908642 @BBCAfrica

        No I can’t admire such people and the gender of their victims don’t matter

        1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      7. End of conversation
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      2. Wangeci_FTA‏ @Wangeci_FTA Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        So happy to see BBC bringing us stories from across the continent! Hats of to the team at @paukwa who started to do this for Kenya a while back! So important not to be a single story as @AdichieSpeaks says!

        1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
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      1. #UNBELIVERPOOL !!‏ @KwekuDankyi Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @zagasabri

        Amina takes a husband after every battle, spend one night with him and then have him executed in the morning? Wow! Amina Commando 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/6WzYG1lYi3

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      2. David N. Wozei‏ @davidwozei Jul 31
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @maaso_ana

        In Africa, women were feared, powerful and mothers respected. So sometimes I wonder where the idea of gender inequality actually came from. Maybe it have come through misperception of religious teachings or colonial influence? African history of inequality before outsiders?

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Wowza‏ @maaso_ana Jul 31
        Replying to @davidwozei @BBCAfrica

        Religious and colonial influence definitely played a huge role in gender inequality. That's a fact

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. David N. Wozei‏ @davidwozei Aug 1
        Replying to @maaso_ana @BBCAfrica

        Add the introduction of Formal education (foreign, western etc) to the list. That seems to have created another large 'artificially' created rift and became a marker for previously non-existent inequalities. However, African societies will rise above all that. We are strong.

        0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
      5. End of conversation
      1. Iboro Tonye-Edet‏ @ibytoria Jul 30
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Sex + Murder =Strength and spirit of womanhood??? @BBCAfrica , seriously???? 😟

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      1. D’villasha‏ @MikaMonkeyMike Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        So BBC is this the type of character you are holding up as a role model? A murderer and rapist? Don’t you guys ever read what you’ve written? Surely this is another character to erase from history?

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      1. Jay The Immortal  🇪🇺  🧙🏻 🇺🇸‏ @joohafr Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        An interesting person for sure... Not quite the best choice as a "strong female icon", though, considering the killing of innocents and rape-killing of slaves.

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      1. lady confessor‏ @boficluv Jul 29
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @TheGeorgeTunez

        Fake facts @BBCAfrica if this a ploit to tarnish the queens imagine please try again

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