Africa
- Akan state of Twifo-Heman - Ofusu Kwabi (c. 1500-c. 1520)
- Empire of Ethiopia - Na'od (1494–1508)
- Adal Sultanate - Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din (1488–1518)
- Kongo Empire - João I, Manikongo (bef.1482–1509)
- Rwanda - Cyirima I, King of Rwanda (c. 1428-c. 1506)
- Songhai Empire - Askia Mohammad I, Askia of the Songhai Empire (1493–1528)
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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“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)
“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)