African warlords

Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)

Ugandan Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

22nd president of Liberia

5th president of Chad

21st President of Liberia

Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces

Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo Musa (born 1973–1975), commonly known by the nom de guerre Hemedti, is the military head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is involved in the Sudanese civil war against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. He is also serving as the chairman of the presidential council of the de facto (unrecognized) Government of Peace and Unity since 2025.

Swahili slave and ivory trader (c. 1832/7–1905)

Politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Chadian politician

Congolese military and politician from Rwanda

Sierra Leonean warlord (1937-2003)

Militia leader, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes

Sierra Leonean warlord (1960-2003)

Sudanese warlord and slave trader (1842–1900)

Liberian politician (1952–2024)

Ugandan rebel (1956-2007)

Indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes

Slave trader and Sudanese governor

Liberian warlord and general

former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri

Congolese politician/military leader

Sudanese warlord

Ugandan lawyer, politician and former military officer

African political philosopher (1942–2020)

Rebel leader of SPLA (1962-2011)

Congolese politician

Muhammad bin Khalfan bin Khamis al-Barwani () (born c. 1850, died 1919), commonly known as Rumaliza, was an Omani Swahili trader of slaves and ivory, active in Central and East Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was a member of the Arabian Barwani tribe. With the help of Tippu Tip, he became the Sultan of Ujiji. At one time, he dominated the trade of Tanganyika, before being defeated by Belgian forces under Baron Francis Dhanis in January 1894.

Central African soldier and politician

Mai-Mai militia leader

Sudanese general

Central African politician

Liberian-American warlord

Liberian politician and former rebel leader, born 1949.