Here’s The Oldest Known Biography Of An African Woman – Written By Other African Women, No Less

“Walatta Petros was an Ethiopian religious leader who lived from 1592 to 1642. A noblewoman, she left her husband to lead the struggle against the Jesuits’ mission to convert Ethiopian Christians to Roman Catholicism. It was for this that the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church elevated her to sainthood. [Her] story was written by her disciples in the Gəˁəz language in 1672, after her death.”