Queen of Sheba

I was sitting at lunch today with some good friends who traveled last week to see some of their Nubian friends. As they were visiting, their friends mentioned that the Queen of Sheba came last summer. Of course my friends were a little skeptical about how a queen from biblical times came to visit last summer but the people were adamant that the Queen of Sheba came to visit. They talked about the Queen and her entourage and about how she is actually the queen of the Nubian people but is called the queen of sheba. They thought she was wonderful and they truly believed that they had encountered royalty. When they came home my friends did a little research on this 'Queen' and found the following.

This 'Queen of Sheba' is actually from Trinidad but she lives in Holland and married the king of the Nubians. Most people wouldn't know this, but there is NO ROYAL FAMILY in the Nubian culture so there's actually no way she could be the Queen of the Nubians. When she came to my country last summer they let her travel all over the country, she ran up a $25,000 bill at the Hilton and they actually signed trade agreements with this woman. What's crazy is that the Nubian people actually live here and they actually don't have a royal family but they actually, 100% believed this woman when she showed up with a wig and an entourage. After over a month of royal treatment they figured out that she was a fake (shocking!) and she left the country, leaving behind an unpaid Hilton bill. But there are still people here who swear that this woman was legit. Anyways, here's a link to an article about her. If you're really bored or think this might be at all funny, go ahead and read it.

http://www.trinicenter.com/more/Trininubian.htm

Some article excerpts and my comments:
'The Nubian dynasty is not limited to borders. There are Nubians in Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Egypt. It's beyond borders." The dynasty is not about politics either, said Kasambura. Rather, it's about helping the more than 60 million Nubian people scattered throughout the world to understand their ancestry'
Really? 60 million? I'm shocked at how much this 'queen' knows about her newly found people because, according to real numbers, there are less than 3 million and they're pretty centrally located.

"People don't know where they're from. Nubians are always Nubian in terms of race."If you saw a Nubian," she said, "you'd see yourself."I see Nubians quite often and never once have I seen myself...although now that I know what to expect I won't panic when it actually happens!!

"More than 90 per cent of slave descendants in the West, said Her Majesty Queen Sheba, come from that area which was the formerly wealthy kingdom of Nubia-south of Egypt and north of Sudan."
Maybe what I learned in history classes wasn't true but I'm fairly certain that the slaves came from all over this continent and not just a very small people group on the other side of Africa, the Queen of Sheba came from the Arabian Peninsula, and, last time I checked, there was nothing south of Egypt and north of Sudan...they border each other!

"We're your people!" she said.Every woman is a queen, she said, and each Trinidadian and Tobagonian has a responsibility to the world.'A responsibility to do what? Pretend like you're a queen and go around scamming people?

So last summer this lady from Trinidad put on a wig, showed up in my country and claimed to be the Queen of a people group who has never had a royal family, was wined and dined by every civic official she met including leaders of those very people who don't have a royal family, ran up an extravagant tab at the Hilton and no one asked any questions, just believed her! I find this rather hilarious. Maybe I've been in Africa too long but we laughed for over an hour about this...and then it was referenced quite a few more times and, I'm not gonna lie, we laughed to the point of tears each time. I know this story sounds just ludicrous and is really quite unbelievable...I probably wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't live here in this absurd place.

Right now they won't give us permission to travel outside of the capitol, but maybe if we got a cool wig and a tiara I could pose as the princess of an Asian island country...then they'd let us go for sure!