Religious leader. He founded the Muslim Brotherhood, an influential and controversial Islamic fundamentalist movement in Egypt. After the Brotherhood was charged with the assassination of the Prime Minister in 1948, he was murdered.
| 1906–1996 | Sir Laurens van der Post |
| Born 1938 | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
| 1915–1997 | Joseph Wolpe |
| Born 1931 | Desmond Tutu |
| 1917–2009 | Helen Suzman |
| Born 1944 | Mongane Serote |
| 1906–2001 | Léopold Senghor |
| 1918–1981 | Anwar Sadat |
| 1922–1999 | Julius Nyerere |
| 1909–1972 | Kwame Nkrumah |
| 1918–1970 | Gamal Nasser |
| 1930–1997 | Sese Mobutu |
| Born 1937 | Haile Mengistu |
| 1918–2013 | Nelson Mandela |
| 1925–1985 | Alex La Guma |
| 1937–1986 | Bessie Head |
| 1942–1993 | Chris Hani |
| 1925–1982 | Ruth First |
| Born 1944 | Buchi Emecheta |
| Born 1939 | Breyten Breytenbach |
| Born 1927 | Sydney Brenner |
| 1921–1996 | Eddine Bokassa |
| Born 1945 | Allan Boesak |
| 1932–1973 | Abebe Bikila |
| 1946–1977 | Stephen Biko |
| 1918–2012 | Ahmed Ben Bella |
| 1925–2003 | Idi Amin |
