Jada Pinkett-Smith's 'African Queens: Njinga' tells the story of the original Woman King

When the West African Kingdoms of Matamba, Ndongo and Luamba and Congo were colonized by the Portuguese, the foreigners named the country Angola, misunderstanding "ngola", the Bantu word for "King", as the name of the region, rather than the monarchy it represented.

This is the kind of misconception that the "Mother of...