| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Kwame Nkrumah | founder of Ghana's independence and Ghana's 1st president |
| Charles Taylor | Liberian president in early 1990's, sold Sierra Leone rebels weapons for diamonds |
| King Menelik | King from Ethiopia, fought against the Italians |
| Jomo Kenyatta | 1st president of Kenya |
| Wangari Maathai | Environmentalist, doctor, won Nobel Peace Prize |
| Desmond Tutu | bishop who led international boycott of South Africa... won Nobel Peace Prize |
| Nelson Mandela | 1st black pres. of South Africa... [South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)] |
| Idi Amin | Dictator in Uganda from 1971-1977, killed over 800,000, exiled many ethnic groups from country, "Last King of Scotland" |
| Robert Mugabe | born on February 21, 1924) has served as the head of government in Zimbabwe since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as the first executive President since 1987 |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | born October 29, 1938) is the current president of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected female president. |
| Leopold II | was King of the Belgians, the founder and sole owner of the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC |
| Sundiata | founder of Mali |
| Mansa Musa | was a 14th century king who ruled the Mali Empire from about 1312 to 1337. He is remembered for his hajj (pilgrimage) and as a benefactor of Islamic scholarship. |
| Sunni Ali | solidified control and governed from about 1464 to 1492 the Songhai Empire in eastern Africa |
| Queen Mother Yan Asatewa | Queen who resisted British rule |
| Nouri Al Maliki | Current leader of Iraq |
| Saddam Housein | former despotic leader of Iraq |
| Benjamin Natanyahu | former Israeli Prime Minister. also Cheltenham grad |
| Osama Bin-Laden | leader of Al-Qaeda and possibly responsible for 9-11 attacks |
| Nasser | Egyptian pres. who agreed to Camp David Accords... later assassinated |
| Ataturk | "Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize [westernize] Turkey as well as separate religion and government |
| Rabin | Former Prime Minister of Israel who agreed to the Oslo Accords... assassinated |
| Aayatollah Khomeini | leader of the Iranian Revolution |
| Ahmadinejad | current pres. of Iran |
| Yasser Arafat | longtime leader of the Palestinian people through the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) died in 2004 |
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