Africa
- Egypt
- President - Gamal Abdel Nasser, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Egypt (1954–1970)
- Prime Minister - Gamal Abdel Nasser, Prime Minister of Egypt (1954–1962)
- Ethiopia
- Monarch - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930–1974)
- Prime Minister - Makonnen Endelkachew, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1942–1957)
- Liberia
- President - William Tubman, President of Liberia (1944–1971)
- Libya
- Monarch - Idris, King of Libya (1951–1969)
- Prime Minister - Mustafa Ben Halim, Prime Minister of Libya (1954–1957)
- South Africa
- Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of South Africa (1952–1961)
- Governor-General - Ernest George Jansen, Governor-General of South Africa (1951–1959)
- Prime Minister - Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, Prime Minister of South Africa (1954–1958)
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Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have a fair amount of faith that women won’t sit back and allow South Africa to become a totally male-dominated new society. The women in South Africa have shown that they are strong, and I think they will make their voices heard.”
—Paula Hathorn (b. c. 1962)
“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)