Africa
- Ethiopia - Zauditu, Emperor of Ethiopia (1916–1930)
- Liberia - Daniel E. Howard, President of Liberia (1912–1920)
- South Africa
- Monarch - King George V, King of South Africa (1910–1936)
- Governor-General - Viscount Buxton, Governor-General of South Africa (1914–1920)
- Prime Minister - Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa (1910–1919)
- Zanzibar - Sayyid Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar (1911–1960)
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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
““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)
“I have a fair amount of faith that women won’t sit back and allow South Africa to become a totally male-dominated new society. The women in South Africa have shown that they are strong, and I think they will make their voices heard.”
—Paula Hathorn (b. c. 1962)
“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)