Everyone is expecting to die in his or her old age but who knows tomorrow? We have to accept anything that comes our way in life. Here are some African leaders who died at a young age than no one was expecting.
The great Samora Machel, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankora, Bantu Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah are some great African leaders who died at a young age than no one was expecting.
Here are the photos of these great leaders of Africa who died at a younger age;
Thomas Sankora
He was the president of Burkina Faso known for taking on former colonial powers, as well as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. He was thirty-seven years (37yrs) when he was killed.
Patrice Lumumba
He was born in the village of Onalua in Kasai province, Belgian Congo. He was a member of the small Batetela ethnic group which became significant in his later political life. He was thirty-five years (35yrs) before he died.
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah
He was born in a rural village of Nkoful in the Gold Coast, Nzema Region of the Republic of Ghana by Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah on the 21st of September, 1909. He was raised in Nkoful village before becoming the first president of the Republic of Ghana. He was sixty-two year's (62yrs) when he died. He was the little-grown African leader who died among all the great leaders mentioned here.
Samora Machel
He was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. He was a socialist in the tradition of Marxism-Leninism and served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975. He was fifty-three year's (53yrs) when he died.
Bantu Steve Biko
He was a South African anti-apartheid activist, Ideologically nationalist and a socialist great leader who was at the forefront of the grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. He died at the age of thirty years (30yrs).
Amilcar Cabral
He was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, pan-Africanist, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial great leaders. He died at age forty-eight years (48yrs).
Their mission was clear, a redistribution of power back to the African people and a mindset of royal Blackness. They are the brave men in Africa who served their country very well before death called for them.
May their soul rest in perfect peace.
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