Africa Presidents + Figures

former president - Tanzania

Julius Nyerere (dead)

current president - Tanzania

Samia Suluhu Hassan

former president - Senegal

Leopold Sedhar Senghor (dead)

current president - Senegal

Macky Sall

former president - Zambia

Kenneth Kaunda (dead)

current president - Zambia

Hakainde Hichilema

former president - Mozambique

Samora Machel (dead)

current president - Mozambique

Daniel Chapo

former president - Cameroon

Ahmadou Ahidjo (dead)

current president - Cameroon

Paul Biya

former president - Algeria

Ahmed Ben Bella (dead)

current president - Algeria

Abdelmadjid Tebboune

former president - South Africa

Thabo Mbeki (alive)

current president - South Africa

Cyril Ramaphosa

former president - Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah (dead)

current president - Ghana

John Mahama

former president - Democratic Republic of Congo

King Leopold II (dead)

current president - Democratic Republic of Congo

Felix Tshisekedi

former president - Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe (dead)

current president - Zimbabwe

Emmerson Mnangagwa

former president - Nigeria

Olusegun Obasanjo (alive)

current president - Nigeria

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

former president - South Africa (x2)

Nelson Mandela (dead) & Jacob Zuma (alive)

current president - South Africa

Cyril Ramaphosa

Architect of Apartheid

Hendrik Verwoerd

Ghana Nobel Peace Prize winner + secretary of UN

Khofi Annan

Liberia’s first president + used children soldiers during Civil Wars

Charles Taylor

Notorious Uganda President (brutal dictator)

Idi Amin

Notorious Libya leader + promoted pan-Africanism

Muammar Gaddafi

who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission + fought Apartheid

Desmond Tutu

Father of Pan-Africanism

Kwame Nkrumah

widow of two presidents

Graca Machel

first president - Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta

first woman president (Liberia)

Ellen Johnson Selif

Queen of African Pop

Brenda Fassie