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Former African leaders: a quiz

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Africa has produced a whole crop of larger-than-life national leaders – presidents and prime ministers – over the years. Some have been inspirational, many have been dictators and there is goodly number of downright crooks among them too! But do you know which countries they led? Here is a quiz to test you. The countries given as optional answers are named according to what they are now, which is not necessarily the same as when the people in question were in charge of them.

  • Question of

    Goodluck Jonathan

    • Ghana
    • Nigeria
    • Liberia
    • Sierra Leone
  • Question of

    Jean-Bedel Bokassa

    • Central African Republic
    • Chad
    • Libya
    • Cameroon
  • Question of

    Idi Amin

    • Tanzania
    • Rwanda
    • Kenya
    • Uganda
  • Question of

    Kenneth Kaunda

    • Zimbabwe
    • Malawi
    • Botswana
    • Zambia
  • Question of

    Charles Taylor

    • Mali
    • Nigeria
    • Liberia
    • Sierra Leone
  • Question of

    Muammar Gaddafi

    • Egypt
    • Libya
    • Algeria
    • Sudan
  • Question of

    P W Botha

    • South Africa
    • Lesotho
    • Angola
    • Mozambique
  • Question of

    Kwame Nkrumah

    • Nigeria
    • Liberia
    • Ghana
    • Sierra Leone
  • Question of

    Anwar Sadat

    • Sudan
    • Ethiopia
    • Somalia
    • Egypt
  • Question of

    Jomo Kenyatta

    • Tanzania
    • Kenya
    • Uganda
    • Burundi

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  6. That is Bokassa when he spent a vast proportion of his national budget on having himself crowned as emperor. Fortunately, he only lasted three more years before he was overthrown.

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    • Well done – I thought Charles Taylor might trip a few people up. I heard a good line yesterday about Goodluck Jonathan, which is “what would you write on his leaving card?”

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