African People Who Changed The World

• Nelson Mandela - Nobel Laureate 1993. Campaigned for end to apartheid in South Africa. First President of democratic South Africa
• Haile Selassie - Emperor of Ethiopia
• Tutu, Bishop Desmond                South African Nobel prize winner 1984
• Mansa Kankan Musa - Emperor of Mali
• Dr Christian Barnard. Performed first heart transplant in 1967, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Secretary general of the United Nations, 1992. Born in Egypt. Served as Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister
• Kofi Annan Ghana. Present Secretary General of The United Nations.
• Azikiwe, Nnamdi   First President of modern Nigeria (1963 - 1966).
  
• Cleopatra VII       (47BC). Queen of Egypt.
• De Klerk, FW        South African Nobel prize winner and President (1989-1994)
  
• Mbeki, Thabo                    South African Vice President.
• Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1941) Kenyan environmental and political activist. Nobel Prize 2004