Africa
- Ashanti Confederacy -
- Owusu Sekyere II, Regent (1887–1888)
- Kwaku Dua III Asamu, Asantehene (1888–1896)
- 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 - Hilary R. W. Johnson, President of Liberia (1884–1892)
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Caliph - Umar bin Ali, Sokoto Caliph (1881–1891)
- Grand Vizier - Muhammadu Buhari, Sokoto Grand Vizier (1886–1910)
- Zanzibar -
- Sayyid Barghash bin Said Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar (1870–1888)
- Sayyid Khalifah bin Said Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar (1888–1890)
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“Everywhereall over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. Theres a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And theyre terrifying, because they are the death of the soul.... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“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 (18871940)
“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)