swap_horiz Thomas Sankara Alternatives

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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

2

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary executed by the British in 1931 after the Lahore Conspiracy Case made...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

3

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

4

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

5

Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton was an Illinois Black Panther leader who built the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago before police killed him du...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

8.1 Great

6

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

7

James Connolly

James Connolly was an Irish socialist and labor organizer who commanded the Irish Citizen Army in the 1916 Easter Rising...

20TH Century Republican Ireland Irish

7.9 Good

8

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

9

Sam Nujoma

Sam Nujoma was a Namibian nationalist who led SWAPO during the independence struggle and became Namibia's first presiden...

20TH Century President Namibia Anti Colonial

7.6 Good

10

Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966, helping create armed patrols and communit...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

7.5 Good

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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

12

Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale is an American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland, Cal...

American 20TH Century Black Panther Socialist

7.5 Good

13

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

14

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

15

Mehdi Ben Barka

Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka led the radical wing of the National Union of Popular Forces before his infamous, st...

20TH Century Moroccan Pan African Socialist

7.2 Good

16

Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras was a prominent Cuban revolutionary who served as Minister of the Interior during the 1933 revolution,...

Cuban 20TH Century Socialist Martyr

7.1 Good

17

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

18

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

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Modibo Keïta

Malian politician Modibo Keïta became the first President of Mali in 1960, notable for championing Pan-Africanism and im...

20TH Century Independence Pan African Malian

6.7 Fair

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Raúl Sendic

Raúl Sendic was a Uruguayan lawyer and founder of the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla movement active in Uruguay during th...

20TH Century Uruguay Socialist Guerrilla

6.5 Fair