18 greatest African kings and queens.

Africa is one of the world’s biggest and wealthiest continents. Today, Africa shines brighter than ever before globally, and the legacy of history’s greatest African rulers is never far away. Although sometimes dismissed as merely “the Dark Continent”, Africa has a rich history full of skillful and impressive rulers. I am featuring rulers in the sense of monarchs, which is why Hannibal and President Nelson Mandela are not included. Moreover, this list concerns African rulers of great influence not just politically and militarily, but also on popular culture. By calling them the top ten “greatest” rulers, it does not necessarily imply these were good people, but rather people who had a great, as in tremendous, even if in some cases terrible, influence on history and they are…