Samuel Doe
1951 – 1990
Liberian

Soldier and president. He lead a revolution against the Liberian ruling class, people descended from American slaves, and shot many of them in scenes of indescribable carnage on the beach. Later he was himself killed.

Contemporaries
1893–1958Johannes Strijdom
1891–1975Haile Selassie I
1918–1981Anwar Sadat
1883–1955José Ortega y Gasset
1909–1972Kwame Nkrumah
1918–1970Gamal Nasser
1925–1985Alex La Guma
1899–1976Kazi Islam
1937–1986Bessie Head
1925–1982Ruth First
1866–1951Robert Broom
1932–1973Abebe Bikila
1946–1977Stephen Biko