Modern African women offers tales from Senegal to South Africa, from the nineteenth century to the present. These modern African rulers, leaders, and visionaries include Madam Yoko, Queen of the Kpaa and national heroine of Sierra Leone, Princess Kesso, who became one of the world's first black models, Alice Lenshina, who fought British colonial rule in Zambia, Ellen Kuzwayo, Dulcie September, the ANC representative in France, killed for her support of the cause of freedom, Miriam Makeba, Winnie Mandela and many others.