Category
page 1Presidents for life
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)
Sukarno
Sukarno (born Koesno Sosrodihardjo; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.
Idi Amin
President of Uganda (1971-1979)
Mobutu Sese Seko
Congolese politician and military officer, the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997 (1930 – 1997)
Saparmyrat Nyýazow
President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
2nd president (1966–76) and emperor (r. 1976–79) of the Central African Republic
Habib Bourguiba
Tunisian politician (1903–2000)
Hastings Banda
First president of Malawi
Toussaint Louverture
Haitian national hero (1743–1803)
Yuan Shikai
Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)
François Duvalier
40th President of the Republic of Haiti (1907-1971)
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko
Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
President of the Republic of Haiti (1951-2014)
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
Paraguayan lawyer, politician and dictator (1766-1840)
Henri Christophe
President and King of Haiti (1767-1820)
Rafael Carrera
President of Guatemala (1815-1865)
Alejandro Petion
1st President of the Republic of Haiti (1770-1818)
Jean-Pierre Boyer
2nd President of Haiti (1776-1850)
president for life
presidential or dictatorial office without term limits
Lennox Sebe
Ciskei president (1926-1994)