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 - Anthony W. Gardiner, 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)
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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)
“Everywhere—all over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There’s a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they’re terrifying, because they are the death of the soul.... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”
—J.G. (James Graham)