Mama Africa

Her Majesty Mambokadzi Arutura Collier Aluko, ‘Mama Africa,’ is the King-Woman of the Mutapa and Barwe Kingdoms and Paramount Chief of the Bakholokoa Kingdom, in southern Africa.

Her bloodline governance was chosen by nature; she was instructed from birth to bring stability to the people, the land, and to nature. As such, Mambokadzi signifies the spirit, mind, emotion, and body of her people’s struggle; her sovereign matriarchal position is founded in the spiritual realm and actioned in the physical world.

Her Majesty Mambokadzi Arutura Collier Aluko
Her Majesty Mambokadzi Arutura Collier Aluko

Over the past 40 + years Mambokadzi Arutura Collier Aluko has worked as a specialist in institutional and community development in Northern and Southern Ireland using hands-on corporate governance and participative representation as tools for transparent community progress and stakeholder impact; she is the first Black woman in Northern Ireland to:

  • advocate about racism and human rights in political forums

  • establish the first Black organisations - the NIACC and ACSONI

  • own Black hairdressing salons in Belfast, these served both Black and White patrons.

On her first visit to the United States, Mambokadzi was the first sovereign ruler to visit the

  • Roots Charter School

  • Ujamaa School

  • African American National Museum

Video Gallery of Recent Events

Sankofa Tour in Washington DC; The African Museum; Powerful Royal Gathering in the Street of Washington DC / USA

Mambokadzi on the Sankofa Tour - Washington DC April 2024