Wassa Fatti,

Thanks very much for a well-researched, educational and interesting article. It is only now that I have been able to read it because of its size and my busy schedule. When I finally managed to read it however, I noticed a sentence that seems to run against the gist of your article, vis-a-vis, that African women ruled in various parts of Africa for thousands of years. Somewhere in the middle of your article, you wrote:

"It's not surprising that the first society to be ruled by a woman was in Africa, Queen Hatshepsut, 1500 BC, Ethiopia."

You will notice that, at the end of your article, you cited many instances where African women ruled much earlier than her. Could the above date (1500 BC) have been a typographical error and if so, what should it have read?

Have a very good day, Gassa.