swap_horiz Sam Nujoma Alternatives

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Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp)

Võ Nguyên Giáp was a prominent 20th-century Vietnamese military strategist and revolutionary leader. He directed the Vie...

Military 20TH Century Vietnamese Anti Colonial

9.2 Excellent

2

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was a key figure in 20th-century Vietnam. He spearheaded the Vietnamese communist movement, ultimately leadi...

20TH Century Vietnam Leader Communist

8.9 Great

3

Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Rising through the army, he spearheaded a radical...

20TH Century President Africa Burkina Faso

8.9 Great

4

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser was an Egyptian army officer who led the 1952 Free Officers revolution and became president, national...

20TH Century President Egypt Arab Nationalist

8.5 Great

5

Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean nationalist who founded the PAIGC in 1956 and led the struggle aga...

20TH Century Theorist Anti Colonial Guinea Bissau

8.4 Great

6

Vo Nguyen Giap

Vo Nguyen Giap was a Vietnamese general who commanded the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and later directed...

20TH Century General Vietnam Communist

8.3 Great

7

Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere was a Tanzanian nationalist and teacher who led Tanganyika to independence in 1961 and became Tanzania's...

20TH Century President Tanzania Socialist

8.3 Great

8

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian nationalist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957 and served as the count...

20TH Century President Ghana Pan African

8.2 Great

9

Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba was a Congolese independence leader who became the Democratic Republic of the Congo's first prime minist...

20TH Century Congo Nationalist Prime Minister

8.1 Great

10

Sukarno

Sukarno was an Indonesian nationalist who proclaimed independence from the Netherlands in 1945 and served as Indonesia's...

20TH Century President Indonesia Independence

8.0 Great

11

Omar Mukhtar

Omar Mukhtar was a Libyan Senussi leader who fought Italian colonial rule in Cyrenaica for years before his capture and...

20TH Century Libya Guerrilla Anti Colonial

7.7 Good

12

Dedan Kimathi

Dedan Kimathi was a Kenyan Mau Mau leader who organized armed resistance to British colonial rule and was executed by co...

20TH Century Kenya Guerrilla Anti Colonial

7.7 Good

13

José Mujica

José Mujica was a former Uruguayan Tupamaro guerrilla prisoner who served as Uruguay's president from 2010 to 2015 and l...

20TH Century President Uruguay Guerrilla

7.6 Good

14

Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera was an Irish revolutionary and statesman, a 1916 Rising survivor who later served as Taoiseach and presi...

20TH Century President Republican Ireland

7.5 Good

15

Abd el-Krim

Abd el-Krim was a Moroccan Rif leader who defeated Spanish forces at Annual in 1921 and led the Rif Republic against col...

20TH Century Leader Morocco Anti Colonial

7.5 Good

16

Joshua Nkomo

Joshua Nkomo was a Zimbabwean nationalist who founded ZAPU in 1961 and helped lead the struggle against white-minority r...

20TH Century Leader Zimbabwe Anti Colonial

7.5 Good

17

Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan nationalist leader who became prime minister at independence in 1963 and Kenya's first presid...

20TH Century President Kenya Nationalist

7.4 Good

18

Samora Machel

Samora Machel was a Mozambican FRELIMO commander who led Mozambique to independence in 1975 and served as its first pres...

20TH Century President Mozambique Anti Colonial

7.2 Good

19

Ahmed Ben Bella

Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian independence fighter and FLN leader who became the country's first president in 1963 aft...

20TH Century President Algeria Anti Colonial

6.8 Fair

20

Agostinho Neto

Agostinho Neto was an Angolan poet, physician, and MPLA leader who became Angola's first president after independence fr...

20TH Century President Angola Anti Colonial

6.8 Fair