What about Cleopatra? Wasn’t she Greek?
Cleopatra was Ptolemaic, meaning her dynasty was Greek-Macedonian, Queen. But even this is complicated - the Ptolemies intermarried with Egyptian nobility over 300 years. Her mother’s identity is unknown but likely Egyptian or part Egyptian. More importantly, focusing on Cleopatra ignores 3,000 years of African Egyptian civilization before the Greeks arrived. She ruled the twilight of Kemet, not its glory. Know the full story.