who were the top five of African dictators?
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Dictator:  A “dictator” is a head of state who exercises arbitrary authority over the lives of his citizens and who cannot be removed from power through legal means. The worst commit terrible human-rights abuses.   There is no such thing as the top five in dictators....they all are viewed as bad  (are some worse that others?  that is a judgment call).  \n\nAfrica, unfortunately has had many.  Here are some recent candidates:  Omar al-Bashir, Sudan. Age 62. In power since 1989.  Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe. Age 81. In power since 1980.   Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea. Age 63.  In power since 1979.  Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya.  Age 63. In power since 1969.   King Mswati III, Swaziland.  Age 37. In power since 1986. Isayas Afewerki, Eritrea.  Age 59. In power since 1993.  Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia.  Age 50. In power since 1995.  Charles Taylor, Liberia. Age 55. In power since 1997.\n\nGood luck on trying to figure out who are the top five.  \n\nAs far as the first to introduce humanism in his country, it would have to be President Kaunda of Zambia.  A major figure in Zambian politics from 1964 to 1991, he led the campaign for independence and successfully bridged the rivalries among the country's various regions and ethnic groups. Kenneth Kaunda tried to base government on his philosophy of humanism," which condemned human exploitation and stressed cooperation among people, but not at the expense of the individual.  I wouldn't say that he influenced Nelson Mandela to do the same (he's six years Mandela's junior) since they both were followers of Gandhi's philosophy.  He was, however, instrumental in Mandela's release from prison.
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If you mean president, then it was Benito Mussolini.\nMaybe you mistyped dictator for director
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Wayne Rooney can't be the best in the world for his attitude.\n\ni have to go with this...\n\n1. Thierry Henry\n2. Steven Gerrard\n3. Frank Lampard\n4. Wayne Rooney\n5. Michael Owen
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Hitler, Stalin, Saddamn, Mussolini, Milosavic, and Hiro Hito were all pretty bad. Take your pick.
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Good question.  My answer is that (a)the corrupt element controls the guns and the military and (b) the history of Africa is the history of TRIBALISM ('my people don't like your people and we never will'). Tribal animosities are encouraged by the dictators. Things don't seem to be getting better -- maybe the conern over the dark continent is just a waste of time and effort.
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Ronald Reagan\nGeorge Washington\nAbraham Lincoln\nMargaret Thatcher\nWinston Churchill\nCharles DeGaulle\nMikhail Gorbachev\nLenin\nStalin\nTony Blair\nGeorge Bush (sr and jr)\nSir John A MacDonald\nPierre Trudeau\nBrian Mulroney\nNikita Kruschev\nIndira Ghandi\nNeru\nNelson Mandela\nLech Walesa\nMussolini\nMao Tse Tung
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DeKlerk of South Africa because he had the guts to free the blacks in a white society.\n\nWinston Churchill of Great Britain because he stood strong against Nazi Germany and was the last free nation involved in WWII.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt of the USA because even with in a wheelchair he was able to guide the USA out of the Great Depression and win WWII.
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Angola, Cote D'Ivore, Ghana, Togo, and Tunisia.\n\nAngola made it ahead of Nigeria.\nCote D'Ivoire made it ahead of Cameroon and Egypt.\nGhana made it ahead of DR Congo and South Africa.\nTogo made it ahead of Senegal.\nTunisia made it ahead of Morocco.
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Colin Powell, Martin Luther King Jr., George Bush.... The list could go on. Abe Lincoln is a good one.
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Kwame Nkrumah,!st prime minister and pres.,1stpostcolonial black african leader.1960's .died 1972
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I believe so but no leader gets acclaimation from ALL the people, only a majority. To make it all more complicated, dictators may originally get support(acclaimation) from other countries and later suffer their wrath. You can read more at Wikipedia, which includes links to several such dictators in Africa.
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1.bush\n2.\n3.rumself(he resigned tho)\n4.hadley\n5.cheney\n6.rice
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He used Nigeria's money to do things for himself. He was a dictator. I remember when I was about six years old and he died, my neighbor had a party. Everybody was sooooo happy.
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A dictator with a good  style.
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1) Kaka\n2) Frank Lampard\n3) Thierry Henry\n4) Zinedine Zidane\n5) Pavel Nedved
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1. Hulk Hogan\n2. Macho man Randy Savage\n3. Andre the Giant\n4. Rick Flair\n5. The Undertaker
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Currently some of the worse are:\n\nKim Jong-il (North Korea) \nKing Fahd and Prince Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) \nCharles Taylor (Liberia) \nThan Shwe (former Burma, now Myanmar) \nTeodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea) \nSaparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan) \nMuammar Gaddafi (Libya) \nFidel Castro (Cuba) \nAlexander Lukashenko (Belarus) \nRobert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)