Africa
- Benin Empire - Ozolua, Oba of Benin (1480–1504)
- Bornu Empire - Ali Gazi, Mai of Bornu (1465–1497)
- Buganda - Kiggala, Kabaka of Buganda (1474–1501)
- Empire of Ethiopia - Eskender (1478–1494)
- Adal Sultanate - Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad(1472–1488)
- Kingdom of Kongo - João I, Manikongo (1470–1509)
- Mali Empire - Mahmud II, Mansa of Mali (1481–1496)
- Mutapa Kingdom - Mukombero Nyahuma, Mwenemutapa (1480–1490)
- Kingdom of Nri - Anyamata, Eze Nri (1465–1511)
- Rwanda - Cyirima I, King of Rwanda (1482–1506)
- Songhai Empire - Sunni Ali (1464–1492)
- Wolof Empire - Tase Daagulen, Buur-ba Jolof (1481–1488)
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“Everywhere—all over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There’s a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they’re terrifying, because they are the death of the soul.... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Day by day we hear the cry of AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS. This cry has become a positive, determined one. It is a cry that is raised simultaneously the world over because of the universal oppression that affects the Negro.”
—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)