Female tribal chiefs in Africa

Sarraounia Mangou was a chief/priestess of the animist Azna subgroup of the Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899.

chief of the Balete people in Botswana

Cameroonian writer, chemist, paramount chief of the Ewondo people