Top 6 Deadliest Dictators Of Africa (Yakubu Gowon Makes The List)

                                                           Yakubu "Jack" Dan-Yumma Gowon

Sometimes when people came into power their real evil self-reveals. Some leaders turn out to be cold-blooded dictators who don’t care for the value of life as much as they care for the achieving of their own aims.


1. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe

This one came to power through electoral deception. He even killed more than 20,000 civilians in the certain province where he didn’t earn any voter during one elections. Then he fabricated it as if it was a rebellion there. During his rule more than 3,1 million of Zimbabweans lost their everything: jobs, money and homes. It happened because of his “Land reform program” which meant destroying any village which disagreed with his policy.
2. Idi Amin Dada of Uganda

Idi Amin Dada

Idi Amin Dada was in power only for 8 years. But during that time he killed more than 500,000 people because of his genocide.
3. Yakubu Gowon of Nigeria

Yakubu Gowon

The time when Yakubu Gowon was ruling Nigeria, was the same when huge amounts of oil were found in the Niger delta. It was also pursued by Ojukwu of eastern Nigeria. Gowon’s civil war killed more than 1 million of civilians. Although both signs of conflict signed the “Aburi Accord” it didn’t helped to set the piece.
4. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Haile Mariam didn’t hesitate whether he should kill the opposition. When he had his inauguration speech he stated that death has come to the revolution and to the EPRP (Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party). Them he threw 3 bottles of blood from his pedestal. Due to his support the movement of killing thousands of “Kebeles” started. People were simply killed in the streets, and their families were to pay money to have a possibility to bury the bodies. He left more than 1,5 million deaths during his rule.
5. Omar al-Bashir of Sudan

Omar al-Bashir

Omar al-Bashir came to power at the end of the Sudanese Civil War. Although he gave in to what the Sudan People’s Liberation Army was requesting, his agreement led to wars in Darfur. Violence and starvation took the lives of more than 400,000 people.
6. Leopold II

Leopold II of Belgium

He wasn’t an African dictator, but this colonial leader of Belgium was ‘famous’ for enslaving and killing almost 15 million of people in Congo. Other European states granted to him that territory to improve their level of living. Instead he decided to use it in his personal interests. So he committed one of the worst atrocity in history.