Africa
- Ashanti Confederacy - Kwaku Dua I Panyin, Asantehene (1834–1867)
- Buganda - Suna II, King of Buganda (1836–1856)
- Bunyoro - Kyebambe IV, Omukama of Bunyoro (1852–1869)
- Burundi - Mwezi IV Gisabo, King of Burundi (1852–1908)
- Dahomey - Ghezo, King of Dahomey (1818–1856)
- Liberia - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia (1848–1856)
- Rwanda -
- Mutara II Rwogera, King of Rwanda (1830–1853)
- Kigeli IV, King of Rwanda (1853–1895)
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Caliph - Ali bin Bello I, Sokoto Caliph (1842–1859)
- Grand Vizier - Abd al-Qadir, Sokoto Grand Vizier (1842–1859)
- Zulu - Mpande kaSenzangakhona, King of the Zulu (1840–1872)
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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“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)
“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)