Africa: Rulers

Updated February 28, 2017 | Infoplease Staff

Congo: Rulers

• Theophile Theodore Joseph Antoine Baron Wahis, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1900?12)
• Felix Alexandre Fuch, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1912?16)
• Eugene Joseph Marie Henry, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1916?21)
• Maurice Eugene Auguste Lippens, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1921?23)
• Martin Joseph Marie Ren Rutten, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1923?27)
• Auguste Constant Tilkens, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1927?34)
• Pierre Marie Joseph Ryckmans, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1934?46)
• Eugne Jacques Pierre Louis Jungers, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1946?51)
• Lon Antoine Marie Petillon, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1951?58)
• Henri Arthur Adolf Marie Christopher Cornelis, governor-general of the Belgian Congo (1958?60)
• Patrice Emergy Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo (1960)
• Moise Tshombe, president of Katanga (1960?61), prime minister of the Republic of the Congo (1964?65)
• Joseph Kasavubu, president of the Republic of the Congo (1960?65)
• Denis Sassou Nguesso, president of the Republic of the Congo (1979?92; 1997?)
• Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zare (1965?97)
• Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997?2001)
• Joseph Kabila, son of Laurent, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2001?)

Morocco: Rulers

• Yakub I, ruler of Morocco (1184?99) and Moorish Spain.
• Ismail, sultan of Morocco (1672?1727)
• Abd ar-Rahman, sultan of Morocco (1822?59)
• Hassan, sultan of Morocco (1873?94)
• Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of Morocco (1894?1908)
• Abd al-Hafiz, sultan of Morocco (1908?12)
• Yusuf, sultan of Morocco (1912?27)
• Muhammad V, sultan of Morocco (1927?53, 1955?57), king of Morocco (1957?61)
• Muhammad VI, sultan of Morocco (1953?55)
• Council of Throne Guardians (1955)
• Hassan II, king of Morocco (1961?1999)
• Muhammad VI, king of Morocco (1999?)

South Africa: Rulers

• Sir John Henry Brand, South African politician, president of the Orange Free State (1864?71)
• Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krger, president of Transvaal (1883?1902)
• Martinus Theunis Steyn, last president (1896?1900) of the Orange Free State
• Hamilton John Goold-Adams, governor of the Orange Free State (1901?02, 1907?10)
• Sir Alfred Milner, governor of Cape Colony (1897?1901), governor of Orange River Colony, Orange Free State (1902?05), governor of Transvaal (1902)
• Sir John Gordon Sprigg, premier of Cape Colony (1900?04)
• Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, governor of Natal (1893?1901), governor of Cape Colony (1901?09)
• Sir Henry Edward McCallum, governor of Natal (1901?07)
• Leander Starr Jameson, premier of Cape Colony (1904?08)
• William Waldegrave Palmer, Earl of Selborne, governor of the Orange Free State (1905?07), governor of Transvaal (1906?10)
• Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of Natal (1907?10)
• John Xavier Merriman, premier of Cape Colony (1908?10)
• Paul Sandford, Baron Methuen of Corsham, governor of Natal (1910)
• Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount Gladstone, governor-general of South Africa (1910?14)
• Louis Botha, prime minister of South Africa (1910?19)
• Sydney Charles Buxton, Viscount Buxton, governor-general of South Africa (1914?20)
• Jan Christian Smuts, prime minister of South Africa (1919?24, 1939?48
• Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, governor-general of South Africa (1920?24)
• Alexander, Earl of Athlone, governor-general of South Africa (1924?31)
• James Hertzog, prime minister of South Africa (1924?39)
• George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, governor-general of South Africa (1931?37)
• Sir Patrick Duncan, governor-general of South Africa (1937?43)
• Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, acting governor-general of South Africa (1943?46)
• Gideon Brand van Zyl, governor-general of South Africa (1946?51)
• Daniel F. Malan, prime minister of South Africa, (1948?54)
• Ernest George Jansen, governor-general of South Africa (1951?59)
• Johannes G. Strijdom, prime minister of South Africa (1954?58)
• Charles Robberts Swart, governor-general of South Africa (1959?61), president of South Africa (1961?67)
• Hendrik F. Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa (1958?66)
• Jozua Franois Naud, acting president of South Africa (1967?68)
• Jacobus Johannes Fouch, president of South Africa (1968?75)
• Nicolaas J. Diederichs, president of South Africa (1975?78)
• Marais Viljoen, president of South Africa (1978, 1979?84)
• B. J. Vorster, prime minister of South Africa (1966?78), governor-general of South Africa (1978?79)
• Pieter Willem Botha, prime minister of South Africa (1978?84), governor-general of South Africa (1984?89)
• J. Christian Heunis, acting president of South Africa (1989)
• Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African president (1989?94)
• Nelson Mandela, South African president (1994?1999)
• Thabo Mbeki, South African president (1999?2008)
• Kgalema Motlanthe, South African president (2008?2009)
• Jacob Zuma, South African president (2009?)

Selected Rulers from Other African Nations

(alphabetical by last name)

• Ahmadou Ahidjo, president of the United Republic of Cameroon (1960?82)
• Pietro Badoglio, governor of Tripolitania (Libya) (1929?33)
• Italo Balbo, governor-general of Libya (1933?40)
• Hastings Kamuzu Banda, African political leader, president of Malawi (1966?94)
• Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, president of Tunisia (1987?2011)
• Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Prime Minister (1962?63), president (1962?65)
• Jean Bedel Bokassa, president of Central African Republic (1966?79)
• Houari Boumedienne, president and prime minister of Algeria (1965?78)
• Ketchwayo Cetshwayo, king of the Zulus (1872?79)
• David Dacko, president of the Central African Republic (1960?66, 1979?81)
• Moktar Ould Daddah, president of Mauritania (1961?78)
• Jos Eduardo Dos Santos, Angolan president (1979?)
• Flix bou, commissioner-General of French Congo and French Equatorial Africa (1941?44)
• Gnassingb Eyadma, president of Togo (1967?)
• Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian head of state (1966?75)
• Rodolfo Graziani, Marchese Di Neghelli, governor of Cyrenaica, Libya (1930?34), Governor-General (1940?41)
• Teshafi Teezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold, prime minister of Ethiopia (1961?74)
• Flix Houphout-Boigny, African political leader, president (1960?93) of Cte d'Ivoire.
• Idris I, king of Libya (1951?69)
• Joseph Leabua Jonathan, prime minister of Lesotho (1965?86)
• Jugurtha, king of Numidia (118?106 B.C.)
• Kenneth David Kaunda, African political leader, president of Zambia (1964?91)
• Jomo Kenyatta, African political leader, first president of Kenya (1964?78)
• Khama, chief of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) (1875?1923?)
• Sir Seretse Khama, president of Botswana (1966?80)
• Seyni Kountch, president of Niger (1974?87)
• Hilla Limann, president of Ghana (1979?81)
• Lobengula, king of Matabeleland (now in Zimbabwe) (1870?93)
• Samora Machel, president of Mozambique (1975?86)
• Sir Milton Margai, prime minister of Sierra Leone (1961?64)
• Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of Ethiopia (1987?91)
• Masinissa, king of Numidia (c. 238 ? 148? B.C.)
• Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia after 1889
• Pierre Messmer, high commissioner of French Congo and French Equatorial Africa (1958)
• Daniel T. arap Moi, president of Kenya (1978?2002)
• Robert Gabriel Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe (1987?)
• Mutesa I, kabaka, or king, of Buganda (now in Uganda), c.1857?84
• Agostinho Neto, first president of independent Angola (1975?79)
• Francisco Macias Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea (1968?79)
• Kwame Nkrumah, African political leader, prime minister (1957?60) and president (1960?66) of Ghana
• Julius Kambarage Nyerere, African political leader, first president (1964?85) of Tanzania
• Apollo Milton Obote, president of Uganda (1966?71, 1980?85)
• Sylvanus Olympio, African political leader, president of Togo (1961?63)
• Muammar Al-Qaddafi, Prime Minister of Libya (1969?1972)
• Radama I, founder of the kingdom of Madagascar
• Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Congolese army officer and president of the Congo (Brazzaville) (1979?92, 1997?)
• Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930?74)
• Lopold Sdar Senghor, African statesman and poet, president (1960?80) of the republic of Senegal
• Alhaji Shehu Shagari, president of Nigeria (1979?83)
• Shaka, paramount chief (1818?28) of the Zulus
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president (2006?present) of Liberia
• Ian D. Smith, prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (1964?65), prime minister of Rhodesia (1965?79)
• Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland (1921?82)
• Siaka Probyn Stevens, president of Sierra Leone (1971?85)
• Tewodros II, emperor of Ethiopia (1855?68)
• William Richard Tolbert, Jr., president of Liberia (1971?80)
• Ahmed Skou Tour, African political leader, president (1958?84) of the republic of Guinea
• Philibert Tsiranana, president of the Malagasy Republic (now Madagascar) (1960?72)
• William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, president of Liberia (1944?71)
• Maxime Weygand, Algerian Governor-General (1941)
• Fulbert Youlou, first president of the Congo (Brazzaville) (1960?63)