Masalanabo Modjadji

Masalanabo Modjadji II (died 1894) was the second Rain Queen of the Lobedu queendom (in present-day South Africa). Masalanabo committed ritual suicide in 1894.

A mysterious figure who only rarely appeared in public, Masalanabo had no children. She died childless

At some point the royal council designated the daughter of "great wife" and sister Princess Leakhali as heir to the throne. Khesethoane inherited the throne. Princess Leakhali was a commoner through his father and she was born out of wedlock . Also the father of Queen Khesetoane was a commoner. Masalanabo committed ritual suicide in 1894, after having named Leakhali as her successor. However, the praise for the influence of female authority on the book is not without criticism. Critics argue that the representation of womanhood in the book and similar works in the field of literary tourism did not only mirror and further imperialist initiatives but "She is also a thinly disguised allegorical admonition to recognize and dispel the threat that the New Woman posed to late-Victorian society".