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African Leaders

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show Idi Amin (Dada)  
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show Muammar al-Gaddafi  
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Imprisoned for 27 years, most of them on Robben Island, a prison colony located off the coast of Cape Town. Leading figure in South Africa’s transition away from apartheid; he and his predecessor, F. W. de Klerk, shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.   show
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Leader of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, leading to a confrontation with Britain, France, and Israel   show
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Prime minister of the Gold Coast in 1952. Declared independence from UK in 1957, renaming the country Ghana. 1st African leader to declare independence from a colonial power   show
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Leader of Tanganyika and then Tanzania from 1961-85. Under his socialist leadership, literacy improved significantly, but poverty remained high, especially among rural laborers uprooted by centralized economic planning.   show
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show Haile Selassie  
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show Mobutu Sese Seko  
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1st president of post-colonial Zimbabwe in 1980 and has led that country ever since. Regime has come under increasing criticism for his failure to prevent hyperinflation and his suppression of political dissent.   show
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Fought against British control of Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s. 1st President of Kenya. His son became the 4th president in 2013.   show
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show Anwar Sadat  
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show Hosni Mubarak  
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