Africa: Rulers (part 2 of 2):
Selected Rulers from Other African Nations
(alphabetical by last name)
*. Ahmadou Ahidjo, president of the United Republic of Cameroon (1960–82)
*. Pietro Badoglio, governor of Tripolitania (Libya) (1929–33)
*. Italo Balbo, governor-general of Libya (1933–40)
*. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, African political leader, president of Malawi (1966–94)
*. Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, president of Tunisia (1987–)
*. Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Prime Minister (1962–63), president (1962–65)
*. Jean Bedel Bokassa, president of Central African Republic (1966–79)
*. Houari Boumedienne, president and prime minister of Algeria (1965–78)
*. Ketchwayo Cetshwayo, king of the Zulus (1872–79)
*. David Dacko, president of the Central African Republic (1960–66, 1979–81)
*. Moktar Ould Daddah, president of Mauritania (1961–78)
*. José Eduardo Dos Santos, Angolan president (1979–)
*. Félix Éboué, commissioner-General of French Congo and French Equatorial Africa (1941–44)
*. Gnassingbé Eyadéma, president of Togo (1967–)
*. Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian head of state (1966–75)
*. Rodolfo Graziani, Marchese Di Neghelli, governor of Cyrenaica, Libya (1930–34), Governor-General (1940–41)
*. Teshafi Teezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold, prime minister of Ethiopia (1961–74)
*. Félix Houphouët- Boigny, African political leader, president (1960–93) of Côte d'Ivoire.
*. Idris I, king of Libya (1951–69)
*. Joseph Leabua Jonathan, prime minister of Lesotho (1965–86)
*. Jugurtha, king of Numidia (118–106B.C.)
*. Kenneth David Kaunda, African political leader, president of Zambia (1964–91)
*. Jomo Kenyatta, African political leader, first president of Kenya (1964–78)
*. Khama, chief of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) (1875–1923?)
*. Sir Seretse Khama, president of Botswana (1966–80)
*. Seyni Kountché, president of Niger(1974–87)
*. Hilla Limann, president of Ghana (1979–81)
*. Lobengula, king of Matabeleland (now in Zimbabwe) (1870–93)
*. Samora Machel, president of Mozambique (1975–86)
*. Sir Milton Margai, prime minister of Sierra Leone (1961–64)
*. Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of Ethiopia (1987–91)
*. Masinissa, king of Numidia (c. 238 – 148?B.C.)
*. Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia after 1889
*. Pierre Messmer, high commissioner of French Congo and French Equatorial Africa (1958)
*. Daniel T. arap Moi, president of Kenya (1978–)
*. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe (1987–)
*. Mutesa I, kabaka, or king, of Buganda (now in Uganda), c.1857–84
*. Agostinho Neto, first president of independent Angola (1975–79)
*. Francisco Macias Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea (1968–79)
*. Kwame Nkrumah, African political leader, prime minister (1957–60) and president (1960–66) of Ghana
*. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, African political leader, first president (1964–85) of Tanzania
*. Apollo Milton Obote, president of Uganda (1966–71, 1980–85)
*. Sylvanus Olympio, African political leader, president of Togo (1961–63)
*. Muammar Al-Qaddafi, de facto Libyan Head of State (1969–)
*. Radama I, founder of the kingdom of Madagascar
*. Denis Sassou- Nguesso, Congolese army officer and president of the Congo (Brazzaville) (1979–92, 1997–)
*. Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930–74)
*. Léopold Sédar Senghor, African statesman and poet, president (1960–80) of the republic of Senegal
*. Alhaji Shehu Shagari, president of Nigeria (1979–83)
*. Shaka, paramount chief (1818–28) of the Zulus
*. Ian D. Smith, prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (1964–65), prime minister of Rhodesia (1965–79)
*. Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland (1921–82)
*. Siaka Probyn Stevens, president of Sierra Leone (1971–85)
*. Tewodros II, emperor of Ethiopia (1855–68)
*. William Richard Tolbert, Jr., president of Liberia (1971–80)
*. Ahmed Sékou Touré, African political leader, president (1958–84) of the republic of Guinea
*. Philibert Tsiranana, president of the Malagasy Republic (now Madagascar) (1960–72)
*. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, president of Liberia (1944–71)
*. Maxime Weygand, Algerian Governor-General (1941)
*. Fulbert Youlou, first president of the Congo (Brazzaville) (1960–63)