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 - 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:
“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)
“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)
“Day by day we hear the cry of AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS. This cry has become a positive, determined one. It is a cry that is raised simultaneously the world over because of the universal oppression that affects the Negro.”
—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)