Government – Country Ruler/Leader
King Ezana of Axum (?- 360 CE)
King Ezana of Axum, the monarch of the Kingdom of Aksum (Now Ethiopia) from 320’s-360 CE, was credited with embracing...
Dingane (1795-1840)
Dingane ka Senzangakhona, a Zulu prince became the second king of the Zulu Kingdom after the death of its founder,...
Dingiswayo (1760-1817)
Dingiswayo, meaning “one in distress or exile,” was a Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa, a title that signified his leadership...
Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826-1884)
King Cetshwayo of the Zulu Kingdom, was born in 1826 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to Zulu king Mpande, and Queen...
Paul Biya (1933- )
Paul Biya has been President of Cameroon since 1982. Biya was born on February 13, 1933, at Mvomeka’a, Meyomessala Subdivision,...
Ngina Kenyetta (1933- )
Ngina Kenyetta is the former First Lady of Kenya, widow of Mzee Jomo Kenyetta (the first president of Kenya), the...
Queen Turunku Bakwa (?-1566)
Scholars have been able to assemble only a meager amount of information about Queen Turunku Bakwa of Zazzau, at that...
Judith, Queen of the Falashas (10th c.)
Few scholars have seriously attempted to examine the origin and life of the 10th-century Black Jewish woman from the tribe...
Madam Yoko (c. 1849-1906)
Madam Yoko, born Soma in the Gbo Chiefdom, was the head of the Mende people of Sierra Leone. She ruled...
