Angelina Jolie calls daughter Zahara, 15, an ‘extraordinary African woman’

Angelina Jolie gushed this week that her 15-year-old daughter Zahara is ‘an extraordinary African woman.’

The 45-year-old film star adopted Zahara as an infant from an orphanage in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in 2005.

Now Angelina has showered praise on her eldest daughter during a TIME 100 video chat with Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate.

‘My daughter is from Ethiopia, one of my children, and I have learned so much from her,’ shared Angelina during the discussion.

‘She is my family, but she is an extraordinary African woman and her connection to her country, her continent, her – is very, its her own, and it’s something I only stand back in awe of,’ continued the Maleficent actress.

Angelina and her ex-husband Brad Pitt share Zahara as well as five other children – Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 11.

Over the past two weeks Brad has been glimpsed twice at Angelina’s mansion in Los Feliz possibly signaling that their equation with each other was improving.

A source told People this week that the couple are ‘in a better place’ in terms of co-parenting the children after their custody battle.

‘It’s taken them a long time, with a lot of family therapy, to get to this point. The younger kids go back and forth between their houses, and Brad loves spending as much time with them as possible. He seems much happier,’ said the insider.

Although they got together in 2005 they waited until 2014 to get married, only for Angelina to file for divorce in September 2016.

Since then they have battled legally over custody and finances, with Angelina reportedly demanding more money than Brad wanted to give.

Living arrangements also became a sticking point as Brad was allegedly preventing Angelina from moving out of the country with their children.

‘I would love to live abroad and will do so as soon as my children are 18,’ she told Harper’s Bazaar late last year for their December/January issue. ‘Right now I’m having to base where their father chooses to live.’

Brad has confessed to having been an alcoholic before Angelina left him but he has since gotten sober, and last year a judge granted him more time with the children.

The Maleficent star gave birth to Vivienne and Knox in Nice, less than 200km from her and Brad’s Chateau Miraval in the South Of France.

Angelina and Brad went to Namibia for Shiloh’s birth and had the government enforce a no-fly zone over the area they were in.

An official at Namibia’s Washington embassy dished at that time: ‘The government has decided that it will issue visas to journalists to go to Namibia and cover Angelina and Brad if they have consent from the parties.’