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)
Read more about this topic: List Of State Leaders In 1942
Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to see the industrial chain broken from every workingman’s child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“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)
“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)