Micaela Bastidas
Micaela Bastidas was one of the principal leaders of the Great Andean Rebellion of 1780–1783. Her surviving letters reveal a strategist and organiser managing supplies, communications, recruitment and military decisions at the heart of the uprising.
Queen Nzinga
Queen Nzinga Mbande was one of Africa's greatest rulers, leading the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba through diplomacy, warfare and political strategy during the seventeenth century while resisting Portuguese expansion.