Africa
- Ashanti Confederacy - Mensa Bonsu Kumaa, Asantehene (1874–1883)
- Burundi - Mwezi IV Gisabo, King of Burundi (1852–1908)
- Dahomey - Glele, King of Dahomey (1856–1889)
- Ethiopia - Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia (1871–1889)
- Liberia -
- James Spriggs Payne, President of Liberia (1876–1878)
- Anthony William Gerdner, President of Liberia (1878–1883)
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Caliph - Mu'adh bin Bello, Sokoto Caliph (1877–1881)
- Grand Vizier - Abdullah bin Muhammad Fodiye, Sokoto Grand Vizier (c.1874-1886)
- Zanzibar - Barghash ibn Sa'id, Sultan of Zanzibar (1870–1888)
- Zulu - Cetshwayo kaMpande, King of the Zulu (1872–1884)
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“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 (19031946)
“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 workingmans child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)