This is Anyango, the leading lady from my short story “The Raid on Camp Struthers”, which takes place in the protectorate of British East Africa around 1896 AD. She has become the queen regent of the Sibour nation (whom I based on the Luo people from the region), for the British colonial authorities has arrested her brother the king for refusing to pay their oppressive taxes and are holding him hostage at a place called Camp Struthers. When Anyango accosts the American diamond prospector Jack Erwin for trespassing in her people’s territory, he offers to help her free her brother from the British in exchange for her sparing him.