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Famous People from Africa

Name these famous Africans, past and present.
Nation refers to the modern-day nation where they lived, even if it didn't exist at the time
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First submittedJanuary 10, 2014
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Clue
Nation
Person
Became president after spending 27 years in prison
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
First African to score 100 Premier League goals for Chelsea
Ivory Coast
Didier Drogba
Egyptian pharaoh and lover of Caesar
Egypt
Cleopatra
UN Secretary General from 1997-2006
Ghana
Kofi Annan
Former Libyan dictator and colonel ousted in the Libyan civil war
Libya
Muammar Gaddafi
Soulful singer of "Smooth Operator" and "The Sweetest Taboo"
Nigeria
Sade
First black archbishop of Cape Town and apartheid opponent
South Africa
Desmond Tutu
Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Very skinny NBA player with an 8'6" wingspan
Sudan
Manute Bol
Former Ethiopian emperor and Rastafarian Messiah
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Zimbabwe dictator whose policies have caused economic havoc
Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe
Director of "District 9" and "Elysium"
South Africa
Neill Blomkamp
R&B singer of "Smack That" and "I Wanna Love You"
Senegal
Akon
Former NBA center known as "The Dream"
Nigeria
Hakeem Olajuwon
Golfer with 9 major championships
South Africa
Gary Player
Exiled Ugandan dictator
Uganda
Idi Amin
First Egyptian president unseated during revolution in 2011
Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
"Blood Diamond" and "Gladiator" actor
Benin
Djimon Hounsou
Bishop of Hippo who wrote "Confessions"
Algeria
St. Augustine
Warrior king who united the Zulu people
South Africa
Shaka
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21 Comments
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Feb 25, 2014
Couldn't figure out how to spell Olajuwon..
TheWombat
+2
Level 72
Feb 25, 2014
Took me ages to stumble on the correct spelling for Selassie. Tried Selassi, Sellassi, Haile Selassi, Ras Tafari...
samwisegamgee
+1
Level 36
Feb 25, 2014
Glad to see Mandela is still 100%
camus
+1
Level 80
Feb 25, 2014
Knew Shaka only because he was the Zulu king in Civilization III.
Gyrenaica
+2
Level 34
Feb 25, 2014
My hat is off to South Africa.
tschutzer
+3
Level 93
Feb 25, 2014
Dammit, my one chance to get credit for knowing Charlize Theron is from South Africa, and she's not even on the quiz.
frognbuff
+3
Level 85
Nov 12, 2016
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and cofounder of Paypal is also South African.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Dec 14, 2016
South Africa is pretty well represented on here. I wanted people from other countries as well. You could likely do a quiz that is just famous people from South Africa, but I wanted a bit more diversity.
sacheth9
+2
Level 65
Apr 6, 2020
And founder of Tesla.
gzx5
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Level 76
Dec 30, 2022
No kidding considering he's the richest man in the world right now.
onegonecat
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Level 72
Jul 8, 2016
Wasn't Cleopatra actually Greek? I would suggest Hatsepshut as a better choice.
buck1017
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Level 78
Jul 11, 2016
Nope. Born in Alexandria.
Djilas
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Level 86
Dec 13, 2016
But from a Greek (Macedonian) dinasty. However she's still "from Africa", like Konstantinos Kavafis, Georges Moustaki or Demis Roussos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Egypt#Notable_Greeks_from_Egypt

ezee
+1
Level 69
Oct 13, 2021
She was Greek indeed. This is inaccurate.
mf3
+1
Level 90
Mar 14, 2017
Kept wondering why Ernie Els wasn't working for the South African golfer...
Mark1232
+3
Level 76
May 3, 2019
What about Freddie Mercury for Tanzania and Elon Musk for South Africa?
IrisIris
+2
Level 59
Jul 7, 2019
Myriam Makeba should be in this test
kogatora
+3
Level 96
Nov 6, 2019
spent so long trying to figure out how my spelling of boutros-ghali was wrong.
gustavo11
+2
Level 73
Jun 28, 2020
is Idi Amin more famous than Thomas Sankara?
sumokitty
+1
Level 90
Nov 3, 2025
In the US for sure. There was a movie about him starring Forest Whitaker.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Apr 22, 2025
15/20, fun quiz
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