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 (1987–2011)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 (118–106 B.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 1889Pierre Messmer, high commissioner of French Congo and French Equatorial Africa (1958)Daniel T. arap Moi, president of Kenya (1978–2002)Robert Gabriel Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe (1987–)Mutesa I, kabaka, or king, of Buganda (now in Uganda), c.1857–84Agostinho 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 GhanaJulius Kambarage Nyerere, African political leader, first president (1964–85) of TanzaniaApollo Milton Obote, president of Uganda (1966–71, 1980–85)Sylvanus Olympio, African political leader, president of Togo (1961–63)Muammar Al-Qaddafi, Prime Minister of Libya (1969–1972)Radama I, founder of the kingdom of MadagascarDenis 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 SenegalAlhaji Shehu Shagari, president of Nigeria (1979–83)Shaka, paramount chief (1818–28) of the ZulusEllen Johnson Sirleaf, president (2006–present) of LiberiaIan 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 GuineaPhilibert 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)
