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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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)