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page 120th-century presidents in Africa
Nelson Mandela
First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
Robert Mugabe
2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017
Hosni Mubarak
President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
F. W. de Klerk
7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
Léopold Sédar Senghor
first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
Omar Bongo
Gabonese politician (1935–2009)
Mengistu Haile Mariam
former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Agostinho Neto
President of Angola (1975-1979)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
First President of Ivory Coast, from 1960 to 1993 (1905-1993)
Mohamed Naguib
1st President of the Republic of Egypt (1901–1984)
Mathieu Kérékou
politician (1933-2015)
Sam Nujoma
President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005 (1929–2025)
Juvénal Habyarimana
2nd President of Rwanda (1937–1994)
Jerry Rawlings
fourth President of the Republic of Ghana (1947-2020)
Charles Taylor
22nd president of Liberia
Seretse Khama
First President of Botswana (1921–1980)
Nnamdi Azikiwe
first President of Nigeria (1904-1996)
Abdou Diouf
Senegalese President
Samuel Doe
21st President of Liberia
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio
President of Togo (1902-1963)
Sylvie Kinigi
Burundian politician
Henri Konan Bédié
President of Ivory Coast from 1993 to 1999 (1934-2023)
William Richard Tolbert
President of Liberia 1971–1980 (1913–1980)
William Tubman
Liberian politician, 19th president of Liberia (1895-1971)
Diori Hamani
President of Niger from 1960 to 1974 (1916-1989)
Shehu Shagari
President of Nigeria (1925-2018)
Melchior Ndadaye
President of Burundi (1953–1993)
Mohamed Boudiaf
Algerian politician (1919–1992)
Mahamane Ousmane
President of Niger from 1993 to 1996
Cyprien Ntaryamira
5th President of Burundi (1955–1994)
Seyni Kountché
Nigerien President (1931-1987)
Robert Guéï
Ivorian politician (1941-2002)
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
President of Somalia (1919–1969)
Ruth Perry
president of Liberia (1939–2017)
Negasso Gidada
Ethiopian President (1943-2019)
Charles Robberts Swart
South African politician (1894–1982)
Émile Derlin Zinsou
Beninese politician (1918-2016)
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
Nigerien President (1949-1999)
Ali Saibou
President of Niger (1940-2011)
Edwin Barclay
Liberian politician (1882-1955)
Amos Sawyer
Liberian politician (1945–2022)
Aman Andom
Ethiopian politician (1924-1974)
Arthur Barclay
President of Liberia (1854-1938)
Tesfaye Genre Kidan
Ethiopian politician (1935–2004)
Garretson W. Gibson
Liberian politician (1832-1910)
Daniel Edward Howard
President of Liberia (1861-1935)
David D. Kpormakpor
President of Liberia (1935-2010)
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo
writer and President of Liberia (1937-2009)
Henry Everard
Acting President of Rhodesia (1897-1980)