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Nelson Mandela (anti-apartheid activist)
Kwame Nkrumah (former president of Ghana)
Robert Mugabe (former president of Zimbabwe)
Julius Nyerere (former president of Tanzania)
Patrice Lumumba (fought for African independence)
Kofi Annan (United Nations Secretary General)
7. Winnie Mandela (former head of African National Congress Women’s League)
8. Shaka Zulu (king of the Zulu nation)
9. Chinua Achebe (a Nigerian writer and poet)
10. Haile Selassie (former emperor of Ethiopia)
11. Thomas Sankara (military captain and revolutionary)
12. George Weah (famous soccer player)
13. Cheikh Anta Diop (historian and anthropologist)
14. Roger Milla (soccer player from Cameroon)
15. Maheru Imhotep (high priest and doctor in ancient Egypt)
16. Ahmed Sekou Toure (first president of Guinea)
17. Leopold Senghor (former president of Senegal)
18. Wole Soyinka (playwright and poet)
19. Maria Mutola (track and field athlete from Mozambique)
20. Yaa Asantewaa (queen mother of Ejsu in the Ashanti Empire-Ghana)
21. Amilcar Cabral (writer and agricultural engineer)
22. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Nigerian musician)
23. Ken Saro Wiwa (writer and environmental activist)
24. Yoweri Museveni (president of Uganda)
25. Miriam Makeba (South Africa singer)
26. Queen Nzinga (queen of Ndongo and Matamba people in Angola)
27. Milton Obote (led Uganda to independence)
28. Walter Rodney (historian and political activist)
29. Felix Konotey-Ahulu (physician in Ghana)
30. Abedi Pele (soccer player)
31. Youssou N’Dour (singer and musician)
32. Anwar Sadat (president of Egypt)
33. Hosea Kutako (freedom fighter)
34. Ahmed Baba (writer and scholar of Songhai)
35. Hamilton Naki (physician)
36. Hugh Masekela (jazz musician)
37. Queen Nefertiti (wife of a famous pharaoh in ancient Egypt)
38. Cleopatra VII Philopator (famous pharaoh of Egypt)
39. Desmond Tutu (Anglican bishop and social rights activist)
40. Musa I (Mansa Musa-Emperor of the Mali empire)
41. Peter Abrahams (South African writer)
42. Haile Gebrselassie (long distance runner from Ethiopia)
43. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (former Secretary General of the United Nations)
44. Olaudah Equiano (former African slave)