Africa
- Kingdom of Baguirmi - Birni Besse (1522–1536)
- Empire of Ethiopia - Dawit II (1508–1540)
- Kingdom of Kongo - Alfonso I, Manikongo (1509–1542)
- Kingdom of Sennar - Amara Dunqas (1503–1533/4)
- Songhai Empire - Askia Mohammad I, Askia of the Songhai Empire (1493–1528)
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“I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to see the industrial chain broken from every workingman’s child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.”
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