Country

Capital city

Language

Independen
ce
1962

Algeria

Algiers

Angola

Luanda

Berber
dilects
Bantu

Benin

Porto-Novo

Yoruba

1960

Botswana
Burkina
Faso
Burundi

Gaborone
Ouagadoug
ou
Bujumbura

Setswana
Mossi

1966
1960

Kirundi

1962

Cape Verde
Cameroon
Central
African
Republic
Chad
Comoros

Praia
Yaounde
Bangui

Crioulo
Bulu
Sangho

1975
1960
1960

NDjamena
Moroni

Sara
Shikomoro

1960
1975

Congo

Brazzaville

Lingala

1960

Congo DR

Kinshasa

Lingala

1960

Cote
dIvoire
Djibouti
Egypt

Yamoussouk
ro
Djibouti
Cairo

Lobi

1960

Afar
Siwi Berber

1977
1922

Equatorial
Guinea
Eritrea

Malabo

Bubi

1968

Asmara

Afar

1993

Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

Amharic

Gabon
Gambia

Libreville
Banjul

Fang
Fula

Never
colonized
1960
1965

Ghana

Accra

Asante

1957

Guinea

Conakry

Fula

1958

GuineaBissau
Kenya

Bissau

Crioulo

1973

Nairobi

Kiswahili

1963

1975

President
Abdelmalek
Bouteflika
Jose
Eduardo
Dos Santos
Patrice
Talon
Ian Khama
Roch Marc
Pierre
Nkurunzinz
a
Jorge Carlos
Paul Biya
Faustin
Archange
Idriss Deby
Ikililou
Dhoinie
Denis
Sassou
Joseph
Kabila
Alassane
Ouattara
Ismail Omar
Abdel ElSisi
Teodore
Mbasogo
Isaias
Afwerki
Mulatu
Teshome
Ali Ondimba
Yahya
Jammeh
John
Mahama
Alpha
Conde
Jose Mario
Vaz
Uhuru

Kenyatta
Pakalitha
Mosisili
Ellen
Johnson
Sirleaf
N/A
Hery Raja

Lesotho

Maseru

Sesotho

1966

Liberia

Monrovia

Mande

1847

Libya
Madagascar

Berber
Malagasy

1951
1960

Malawi

Tripoli
Antananariv
o
Lilongwe

Chichewa

1964

Mali

Bamako

Bambara

1960

Mauritania

Nouakchott

Wolof

1960

Mauritius

Port Louis

Creole

1968

Morocco

Rabat

Berber

1956

Mozambiqu
e
Namibia

Maputo

Emakhuwa

1975

Windhoek

Afrikaans

1990

Niger

Niamey

Hausa

1960

Nigeria

Abuja

Hausa

1960

Rwanda

Kigali

Kinyarwand
a

1962

Sao Tome
and
Principe
Senegal
Seychelles

Sao Tome
Dakar
Victoria

Wolof
Creole

1960
1976

Sierra
Leone
Somalia

Freetown

Krio

1961

Mogadishu

Somali

1960

South Africa Pretoria

Cape Town
Bloemfontei
n
South
Juba
Sudan
Sudan
Khartoum

IsiZulu
SiSwati
Setswana

1994

Hage
Geingob
Mahamado
u Issoufu
Muhammad
u Buari
Paul
Kagame
Manuel
Pinto Da
Costa
Macky Sall
James
Michel
Ernest
Koroma
Hassan
Mohamoud
Jacob Zuma

Dinka

2011

Salva Kiir

Nubian

1956

Swaziland

SiSwati

1968

Omar AlBashiir
Makhosetiv

Mbabane

1975

Peter
Mutharika
Ibrahim
Keita
Mohamed
Aziz
Ameenah
Gurib
Abdelilah
Benkirane
Filipe Nyusi

Tanzania

Dodoma

Kiswahili

1961

Togo

Lome

Ewe

1960

Tunisia
Uganda

Tunis
Kampala

Berber
Luganda

1956
1962

Zambia

Lusaka

Bemba

1964

Zimbabwe

Harare

Shona

1980

e Dlamini
John
Magufuli
Faure
Gnassingbe
Beji Essebsi
Yoweri
Museveni
Edgar
Lungu
Robert
Mugabe