Profiles eight modern African political leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Haile Selassie.

Map of Africa -- Introduction -- Haile Selassie of Ethiopia -- Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt -- Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana -- Leopold Senghor of Senegal -- Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania -- Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya -- Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe -- Nelson Mandela of South Africa -- Index.