Africa
- Egypt
- Monarch - Farouk I, King of Egypt (1936–1952)
- Prime Minister - Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1937–1939)
- Liberia
- President - Edwin Barclay, President of Liberia (1930–1944)
- South Africa
- Monarch - George VI, King of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas (1936–1952)
- Governor-General - Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of South Africa (1937–1943)
- Prime Minister - J. B. M. Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa (1924–1939)
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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 (1903–1946)
““I’ll love you dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don’t know anymore. They aren’t free.”
—Youssou N’Dour (b. 1959)
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