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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)

Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election. Lumumba was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic.

Laurent-Désiré Kabila
former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1939-2001)
Siad Barre
Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)
Amílcar Cabral
Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)

John Garang
Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader (1945–2005)
John Chilembwe
independence leader in Malawi
Dedan Kimathi
Kenyan leader during the Mau Mau Uprising (1920–1957)

Lilica Boal
Cape Verdean historian, philosopher, teacher and anti-fascist activist
Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof
Gambian politician (1924-2011)
Osvaldo Vieira
PAIGC fighter from Guinea-Bissau
Omar Blondin Diop
Senegalese revolutionary (1946-1973)