Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity

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width="20px" class="unsortable"\|{{Abbr\|No.\|Number}}	class="unsortable"\|Portrait	Chairperson	width="120px"\|Took office	width="120px"\|Left office	Country	width="90px"\|Region
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1	75px	Haile Selassie	25 May 1963	17 July 1964	{{Country\|Ethiopian Empire\|name=Ethiopia}}	East Africa
2	75px	Gamal Abdel Nasser	17 July 1964	21 October 1965	{{Country\|Egypt\|1958}}	North Africa
3	75px	Kwame Nkrumah	21 October 1965	24 February 1966	rowspan="2"\|{{Country\|Ghana\|1964}}	rowspan="2" \|West Africa
4	75px	Joseph Arthur Ankrah	24 February 1966	5 November 1966
(1)	75px	Haile Selassie	5 November 1966	11 September 1967	{{Country\|Ethiopian Empire\|name=Ethiopia}}	East Africa
5	75px	Mobutu Sese Seko	11 September 1967	13 September 1968	{{Flagicon\|Congo-Kinshasa\|1966}} Democratic Republic of the Congo	Central Africa
6	75px	Houari Boumédiène	13 September 1968	6 September 1969	{{Country\|Algeria}}	North Africa
7	75px	Ahmadou Ahidjo	6 September 1969	1 September 1970	{{Country\|Cameroon\|1961}}	Central Africa
8	75px	Kenneth Kaunda	1 September 1970	21 June 1971	{{Country\|Zambia\|1964}}	Southern Africa
9	75px	Moktar Ould Daddah	21 June 1971	12 June 1972	{{Country\|Mauritania\|1959}}	North Africa
10	75px	Hassan II	12 June 1972	27 May 1973	{{Country\|Morocco}}	North Africa
11	75px	Yakubu Gowon	27 May 1973	12 June 1974	{{Country\|Nigeria}}	West Africa
12	75px	Siad Barre	12 June 1974	28 July 1975	{{Flagicon\|Somalia}} Somalia	East Africa
13	75px	Idi Amin	28 July 1975	2 July 1976	{{Country\|Uganda}}	East Africa
14	75px	Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	2 July 1976	2 July 1977	{{Country\|Mauritius}}	Southern Africa
15	75px	Omar Bongo	2 July 1977	18 July 1978	{{Country\|Gabon}}	Central Africa
16	75px	Gaafar Nimeiry	18 July 1978	12 July 1979	{{flagicon \|Sudan}} Sudan	East Africa
17	75px	William Tolbert	12 July 1979	12 April 1980	{{Country\|Liberia}}	rowspan="2"\|West Africa
	75px	Léopold Sédar Senghor {{small\|Acting Chairperson}}	28 April 1980	1 July 1980	{{Country\|Senegal}}
18	75px	Siaka Stevens	1 July 1980	24 June 1981	{{Country\|Sierra Leone}}	West Africa
19	75px	Daniel arap Moi	24 June 1981	6 June 1983	{{Country\|Kenya}}	East Africa
20	75px	Mengistu Haile Mariam	6 June 1983	12 November 1984	{{flagicon image\|Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987).svg}} Ethiopia	East Africa
21	75px	Julius Nyerere	12 November 1984	18 July 1985	{{Country\|Tanzania}}	East Africa
22	75px	Abdou Diouf	18 July 1985	28 July 1986	{{Country\|Senegal}}	West Africa
23	75px	Denis Sassou-Nguesso	28 July 1986	27 July 1987	{{flagicon image\|Flag of the People's Republic of Congo.svg}} People's Republic of the Congo	Central Africa
(8)	75px	Kenneth Kaunda	27 July 1987	25 May 1988	{{Country\|Zambia\|1964}}	Southern Africa
24	75px	Moussa Traoré	25 May 1988	24 July 1989	{{Country\|Mali}}	West Africa
25	75px	Hosni Mubarak	24 July 1989	9 July 1990	{{Country\|Egypt}}	North Africa
26	75px	Yoweri Museveni	9 July 1990	3 June 1991	{{Country\|Uganda}}	East Africa
27	75px	Ibrahim Babangida	3 June 1991	29 June 1992	{{Country\|Nigeria}}	West Africa
(23)	75px	Abdou Diouf	29 June 1992	28 June 1993	{{Country\|Senegal}}	West Africa
(26)	75px	Hosni Mubarak	28 June 1993	13 June 1994	{{Country\|Egypt}}	North Africa
28	75px	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	13 June 1994	26 June 1995	{{Country\|Tunisia}}	North Africa
29	75px	Meles Zenawi	26 June 1995	8 July 1996	{{Country\|Ethiopia}}	East Africa
30	75px	Paul Biya	8 July 1996	2 June 1997	{{Country\|Cameroon}}	Central Africa
31	75px	Robert Mugabe	2 June 1997	8 June 1998	{{Country\|Zimbabwe}}	Southern Africa
32	75px	Blaise Compaoré	align="center" \|8 June 1998	align="center" \|12 July 1999	{{Country\|Burkina Faso}}	West Africa
33	75px	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	12 July 1999	10 July 2000	{{Country\|Algeria}}	North Africa
34	75px	Gnassingbé Eyadéma	10 July 2000	9 July 2001	{{Country\|Togo}}	West Africa
align="center" \|35	75px	Frederick Chiluba	9 July 2001	2 January 2002	rowspan="2"\|{{Country\|Zambia}}	rowspan="2"\|Southern Africa
36	75px	Levy Mwanawasa	2 January 2002	9 July 2002

Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity

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