Hmmmm.... Verry interesting! Thanks, y'all. Now I know where the name, "Ayisha" comes from. Funny that everyone I've seen with that name is black. Go figure.
I mean it's ironic because the one in the novel was white. I suppose that a white woman in power over a black nation fit in with the notion that the only "civilised" people were white ones, which excused our slave trade.