Africa
- Ethiopia - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (1478–1494)
- Adal Sultanate - Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad, Sultan (1472–1488)
- Kongo - João I, Manikongo (1470–1509)
- Songhai Empire - Sunni Ali, Sunni of the Songhai Empire (1464–1492)
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“In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don’t know anymore. They aren’t free.”
—Youssou N’Dour (b. 1959)
““I’ll love you dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)