Born in the Congo, Tatiana Zinga Botao grew up in Brussels before moving to Quebec. As an adult, she discovers that she shares her name with a queen who ruled over a vast African territory in the 17th century. Alone on stage, the artist retraces the ancestral thread that connects her to her namesake while following the Congo-Belgium-Canada triangle she herself has traveled.
Co-written by Alexis Diamond, Marie Louise Bibish Mumbu, and Tatiana Zinga Botao, Nzinga portrays exile as a stance of pride and dignity. With the collaboration of French-Congolese director Albertine M. Itela, the creators set out to tell their own stories in their own way, while sharing their vision of a world where women take their rightful place in positions of influence and power.
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