Dona Francisca Josefa de Moura Meneses, known as Francisca Chiponda (circa 1738 - circa 1825), was a powerful mixed-race African slave owner and slave trader in the Tete area of Portuguese Mozambique who was one of those to finance the first Portuguese expedition from Mozambique to Kazembe (now Zambia) in 1790 and the 1798 attempt to cross Africa from east to west.[1]