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Arawelo

Arawelo (c.15 CE)
Greatest - or Worst - Queen of Somalian History
Somalia’s ballsiest queen, she took power from men either figuratively or literally – by ordering much of the gender castrated. Hero or villain, depending on who’s doing the telling, she remains one of Africa’s most divisive figures.

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