Africa
- Ashanti Confederacy – Osei Kofi Tutu I, Asantehene (1701–1717)
- Dahomey – Akaba, King of Dahomey (1685–1708)
- Ethiopia – Iyasu I, Emperor of Ethiopia, (1682–1706)
- Kongo – João II, Manikongo of Kongo (1693–1717)
- Nkore – Ntare IV Omugabe of Nkole, (c.1699–c.1727)
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“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)
“For Africa to me ... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
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