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.

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