Africa
- Egypt -
- Monarch - Farouk I, King of Egypt (1936–1952)
- Prime Minister -
- Hussein Sirri Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1940–1942)
- Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1942–1944)
- Ethiopia -
- Monarch - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930–1974)
- Prime Minister - Makonnen Endelkachew, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1942–1957)
- Liberia - Edwin Barclay, President of Liberia (1930–1944)
- South Africa -
- Monarch - George VI, King of South Africa (1936–1952)
- Governor-General - Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of South Africa (1937–1943)
- Prime Minister - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (1939–1948)
- Zanzibar - Sayyid Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar (1911–1960)
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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“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)
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“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)