4. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya (1969-2011)
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Photo credit: Africa Metro
Commonly referred to as “Colonel Gaddafi,” Muammar Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary politician and president who ruled the North African country from 1969 to 2011, when he was assassinated.
Initially, he was ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and socialism, but later came to rule according to his own Third International Theory.
Gaddafi was born in 1942 in Sirte to a poor Bedouin family and became an Arab nationalist while at school in Sabha.
In 1963, he joined the Royal Military Academy in Benghazi, where he founded a revolutionary cell that helped him carry out a successful coup against the Western-backed Senussi monarchy of Idris in 1969.
Although he was widely celebrated for his anti-imperialist stance and firm support for Arab and African unity, Gaddafi was also accused of authoritarianism, corruption, and abuse of human rights. He was also regarded as one of the biggest financiers of global terrorism.
He was assassinated by Islamic militants during the 2011 Arab Spring.
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No mention of King Leopold or Cecil Rhodes.
Neither of them are African.
Can't believe you didn't mention the living dictator Robert Mugabe, my white neighbors are from Zimbabwe and they still cry about how that bastard kicked them out.
Who wrote this bull$hit...lmao
You notice all of these African 'dictators' did not become dictators until they STOPPED bowing down to White ppl. Idi Amin used to make the White ppl who visited him bow down to him lmao. And don't even get me start on Gaddaffi lmao.
It's always AFTER they stop obeying White ppl that they become 'dictators'.
And Abacha was successfully omitted. Shame and sham