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Benin (french)

1600 – 1868: Kingdom/Royaume

1868 – 1946: France

1946 – 58: Overseas Territory/Territoire d' Outre-mer

1958 – 60: Autonomy/Autonomie

1960 – 75: Republic/République

1975 – 90: People's Republic/République Populaire

1990 -: Republic/République

Governors/Governeurs

1900 – 06: Victor Théophile Liotard

1906: Joseph Étienne Gabriel Lhuerre

1906 – 08: Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal

1908: Marie Antoine Edmond Gaudart

1908: Auguste Charles Désiré Emmanuel Brunet

1908 – 09: Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne

1909 – 11: Henri Jules Jean Baptiste Malan

1911: Raphaël Valentin Marius Antonetti

1911 – 12: Émile Joseph Merwart

Lieutenant-governors/Lieutenant-Gouverneurs

1912 – 17: Charles Henri Adrien Noufflard

1917 – 28: Gaston Léon Joseph Fourn

1928 – 29: Lucien Eugène Geay

1929 – 31: Dieudonné François Joseph Marie Reste

1931 – 32: Théophile Antione Pascal Tellier

1932: Louis Placide Blacher

1932 – 33: Louis Aujas

1933 – 34: Jules Marcel de Coppet

1934 – 35: Jean Hyacinthe Desanti

1935 – 37: Maurice Léon Bourgine

1937: Henri Étienne Martinet

1937 – 38: Ernest Gayon

1938: Henri Étienne Martinet

1938 – 40: Armand Léon Annet

1940: Pierre Jean André Paliceti

1940 – 43: Léon Hippolyte Truitard

1943 – 46: Charles André Maurice Assier de Pompignan

Governors/Governeurs

1946 – 48: Robert Legendre

1948 – 49: Jean Georges Chambon

1949: Jacques Alphonse Boissier

1949 – 51: Claude Valluy

1951 – 55: Charles Henri Bonfils

1955 – 58: Marc Casimir Biros

1958: Bernard Hepp

High commissioner/Haute-Commissaire

1958 – 60: René Tirant

Presidents

1960 – 63: Hubert Maga

1963: Hubert Maga,Sourou Apithy,Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin

1963 – 64: Christophe Soglo

1964 – 65: Sourou Apithy

1965: Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin

1965: Tahirou Congacou

1965 – 67: Christophe Soglo

1967: Jean-Baptiste Hachème

1967: Iropa Maurice Kouandété

1967 – 68: Alphonse Amadou Alley

1968 – 69: Émile Derlin Henri Zinsou

1969: Iropa Maurice Kouandété

1969 – 70: Paul-Émile de Souza

1970 – 72: Hubert Maga

1972: Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin

1972 – 91: Mathieu Kérékou

1991 – 96: Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo

1996 – 2006: Mathieu Kérékou

2006 – 16: Thomas Boni Yayi

2016 -: Patrice Athanase Guillaume Talon

Burkina Faso (french)

s. III – s. XIII: Bura-Asinda

s. XIII – 1896: Mossi

1896 – 1958: France

1958 – 60: Autonomy/Autonomie

1960 – 84: Republic of Upper Volta/République de Haute-Volta

1984 -: Republic of Burkina Faso/République de Burkina Faso

Lieutenant-governors/Lieutenants-gouverneurs Vice Pres. of the Gov.Council/Vice-président du Conseil de gouvernement

1919 – 27: Frédéric Charles Édouard Alexandre Hesling

1957 – 58: Daniel Ouézzin Coulibaly

1927 – 28: Robert Arnaud

Prime ministers/Premiers ministres

1928 – 32: Albéric Auguste Fournier

1958 – 66: Maurice Yaméogo

1932: Gabriel Omer Descemet

1971 – 74: Gérard Kango Ouédraogo

Resident

1974 – 78: Aboubakar Sangoulé Lamizana

1938 – 40: Edmond Louveau

1978 – 80: Issoufou Joseph Conombo

1940 – 47: Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire

1980 – 82: Saye Zerbo

Governors/Gouverneurs

1983: Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara

1947 – 48: Gaton Mourgues

1992 – 94: Youssouf Ouédraogo

1948 – 53: Albert Jean Mouragues

1994 – 96: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

1953 – 56: Salvador Jean Étcheber

1996 – 2000: Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo

1956 – 58: Yvon Bourges

2000 – 2007: Paramanga Ernest Yonli

High Commissioners/Haut-commissaires

2007 – 11: Tertius Zongo

1958 – 59: Max Guillaume Berthet

2011 – 14: Luc Adolphe Tiao

1959 – 60: Paul Jean Marie Masson

2015 – 16: Isaac Yacouba Zida

Presidents

2016 – 19: Paul Kaba Thieba

1959 – 66: Maurice Yaméogo

2019 -: Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré

1966 – 80: Aboubakar Sangoulé Lamizana

1980 – 82: Saye Zerbo

1982 – 83: Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo

1983 – 87: Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara

1987 – 2014: Blaise Compaoré

2014: Honoré Nabéré Traoré

2014: Isaac Yacouba Zida

2014 – 15: Michel Kafando

2015: Gilbert Diendéré

2015: Michel Kafando

2015 -: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Cape Verde/Cabo Verde (portuguese)/Kabu Verdi (cape verdean creole)

1462 – 1974: Portugal

1974 – 75: Autonomy/Autonomia

1975 -: Republic/República/Repúblika

Governors/Governadores Ruling Council/Conselho Deliberativo

1901 – 02: Arnaldo de Novalis Guedes de Rebêlo

1974 – 75: Amaro Alexandre da Luz

1902 – 03: Francisco de Paula Cid

Prime ministres/Primeiros ministros/Primeru-Ministru

1903 – 04: António Alfredo Barjona de Freitas

1975 – 91: Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires

1905 – 07: Amâncio Alpoim de Cerqueira Borges Cabral

1991 – 2000: Carlos Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho Vega

1907 – 09: Bernardo António da Costa de Sousa de Macedo

2000 – 01: António Gualberto do Rosário

1909 – 10: Martinho Pinto de Queiros Montenegro

2000 – 16: José Maria Pereira Neves

1910 – 11: António de Macedo Ramalho Ortigão

2016 -: Ulisses Correia e Silva

1911: Artur Marinha de Campos

1911 – 15: Joaquím Pedro Vieira Judice Biker

1915 – 18: Abel Fontoura da Costa

1918 – 19: Teófilo Duarte

1919 – 21: Manuel Firmino de Almeida da Maia Magalhães

1921 – 22: Filipe Carlos Días de Carvalho

1924 – 26: Julio Henríques d'Abreu

1927: João de Almeida

1927 – 31: António Alvares Guedes Vaz

1931 – 41: Amadeu Gomes de Figueiredo

1941 – 43: José Diogo Ferreira Martins

1943 – 49: João de Figueiredo

1950 – 53: Carlos Alberto García Alves Roçadas

1953 – 57: Manuel Marques de Abrantes Amaral

1957 – 58: António Augusto Peixoto Correia

1958 – 62: Silvino Silvério Marques

1963 – 69: Leão Maria Tavares Rosado do Sacramento Monteiro

1969 – 74: António Adriano Faria Lopes dos Santos

1974: Henrique Afonso da Silva Horta

High Commissioner/Alto Comissário

1974 – 75: Vicente Almeida d'Eça

Presidents/Presidentes/Prizidenti

1975 – 91: Aristides Maria Pereira

1991 – 2001: António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro

2001 – 11: Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires

2011 -: Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca

Côte d'Ivoire (french)

? - 1690: Akan

1690 – 1843: Empire

1843 – 1946: France

1946 – 58: Overseas Territory/Territoire de Outre-mer

1958 – 60: Autonomy/Autonomie

1960 -: Republic/Republique

Governors/Gouverneurs Prime ministres/Premiers Ministres

1898 – 1902: Henri Charles Victor Amédée Roberdeau

1957 – 59: Marcel Auguste Denise

1902: Albert Anatole Nebout

1959 – 90: Félix Houphouët-Boigny

1902 – 07: Marie François Joseph Clozel

1990 – 93: Alassane Dramane Ouattara

1907 – 08: Albert Anatole Nebout

1993 – 99: Daniel Kablan Duncan

1908 – 16: Gabriel Louis Angoulvant

2000: Seydou Elimane Diarra

1916 – 18: Maurice Pierre Lapalud

2000 – 03: Pascal Affi N'Guessan

1918 – 24: Raphaël Valentin Marius Antonetti

2003 – 05: Seydou Elimane Diarra

1924 – 25: Richard Édmond Maurice Édouard Brunot

2005 – 07: Charles Konan Banny

1925 – 30: Maurice Pierre Lapalud

2007 – 12: Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

1930: Joseph Jules Brévié

2012: Jeannot Kouadio-Ahoussou

1930 – 31: Jean Paul Boutonnet

2012 – 17: Daniel Kablan Duncan

1931 – 35: Dieudonné François Joseph Marie Reste

2017 – 20: Amadou Gon Coulibaly

1935: Marie Alphonse Flottes de Pouzols

2020 -: Hamed Bakayoko

1935 – 36: Adolphe Deitte

1936: Georges Julien Lamy

1936 – 38: Gaston Charles Julien Mondon

1938 – 39: Louis Bressolles

1939 – 41: Horace Valentin Crocicchia

1941 – 42: Hubert Jules Deschamps

1942 – 43: Georges Pierre Rey

1943: Jean François Toby

1943 – 45: André Jean Gaston Latrille

1945 – 46: Henry Jean Marie de Mauduit

1946 – 47: André Jean Gaston Latrille

1947 – 48: Oswald Marcellin Maurice Maruis Durand

1948: Georges Louis Joseph Orselli

1948 – 52: Laurent Élisée Péchoux

1952: Pierre François Pélieu

1952 – 54: Camille Victor Bailly

1954 – 56: Pierre Messmer

1956 – 57: Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami

1957 – 58: Ernest de Nattes

High Commissioners/Haute-Commissaire

1958 – 60: Ernest de Nattes

1960: Yves René Henri Guéna

Presidents

1960 – 93: Félix Houphouët-Boigny

1993 – 99: Aimé Henri Konan Bédié

1999 – 2000: Robert Guéï

2000 – 10: Laurent Koudou Gbagbo

2010 -: Alassane Dramane Ouattara

Gambia (english)/Kambiya (mandinka)

750 – 1068: Ghana

1068 – 1263: Mandinka/Mandinkoolu

1263 – 1645: Mali

1645 – 51: British/Anggalee

1651 – 59: Latvia

1659 – 64: Dutch/Wanandeya

1664 – 95: British/Anggalee

1695 – 99: France/Faransi

1699 – 1779: British/Anggalee

1779 – 83: France/Faransi

1783 – 1965: British/Anggalee

1965 – 70: State/Bankee

1970 – 82: Republic

1982 – 89: Confederation

1989 – 96: Republic

1996 -: State/Bankee

Governors/Mansoo

1900 – 1911: George Chardin Denton

1911 – 14: Henry Lionel Galway

1914 – 20: Edward John Cameron

1921 – 27: Cecil Hamilton Armitage

1927 – 28: John Middleton

1928 – 30: Edward Brandis Denham

1930 – 34: Herbert Richmond Palmer

1934 – 36: Arthur Frederick Richards

1936 – 42: Wilfred Thomas Southorn

1942 – 47: Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood

1947 – 49: Andrew Barkworth Wright

1949 – 58: Percy Wyn-Harris

1958 – 62: Edward Henry Windley

1962 – 65: John Warburton Paul

Governors-general/Mansoo

1965 – 66: John Warburton Paul

1966 – 70: Farimang Mamadi Singhateh

Presidents/Peresidango

1970 – 94: Dawda Kairaba Jawara

1994 – 2017: Yahya Jammeh

2017 -: Adama Barrow

Ghana (english)

? - 300: Soninke

300 – 1200: Empire

1200 – 1600: Mali

1600 – 1874: Ashanti

1874 – 1960: British

1960 -: Republic

Governors/Amrado

1900 – 04: Matthew Nathan

1904: Herbert Bryan

1904 – 10: John Pickersgill Rodger

1910: Herbert Bryan

1910 – 12: James Jamieson Thorburn

1912: Herbert Bryan

1912 – 19: Hugh Charles Clifford

1919: Alexander Ransford Slater

1919 – 27: Frederick Gordon Guggisberg

1927: James Crawford Maxwell

1927: John C. Maxwell

1927 – 32: Alexander Ransford Slater

1932: Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote

1932 – 34: Shenton Whitelegge Thomas

1934: Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote

1934 – 41: Arnold Wienholt Hodgson

1941 – 42: George Ernest London

1942 – 47: Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns

1948 – 49: Gerald Hallen Creasy

1949: Robert Scott

1949: Thorleif Rattray Orde Mangin

1949: Robert Scott

1949 – 57: Charles Noble Arden-Clarke

Governor-general/Amrado

1957 – 60: William Francis Hare

Presidents

1960 – 66: Kofi Kwame Nkrumah

1966 – 69: Joseph Ankrah,Akwasi Afrifa,Emmanuel Kotoka

1969 – 70: Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa

1970: Nii Amaa Ollennu

1970 – 72: Edward Akufo-Addo

1972 – 78: Ignatius Kutu Acheampong

1978 – 79: Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo

1979: Jerry John Rawlings

1979 – 81: Hilla Limann

1981 – 2001: Jerry John Rawlings

2001 – 09: John Agyekum Kufuor

2009 – 12: John Evans Atta Mills

2012 – 17: John Dramani Mahama

2017 -: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

Guinea/Guinée (french)

s. XII - 1235: Susu/Sosso

1235 – 1645: Mali

1645 – 1725: Bamana/Bambara

1725 – 1896: Imamate/Imamat

1896 – 1946: France

1946 – 58: Overseas Territory/Territoire d' Outre-mer

1958 – 62: United States of West Africa/Etats-Unis d'Afrique de l'Ouest

1962 – 79: Republic/République

1979 – 84: People's Revolutionary Republic/République Populaire Révolutionnaire

1984 -:Republic/République

Liutenant-Governors/Lieutenant-Gouverneurs Prime ministers/Premiers Ministres

1900 – 1904: Paul Jean François Cousturier

1957 – 72: Ahmed Sékou Touré

1904 – 06: Antoine-Marie-Auguste Frézouls

1972 – 84: Louis Lansana Beavogui

1906 – 07: Jules Louis Richard

1984: Diarra Traoré

1907: Joost van Vollenhouven

1996 – 99: Sidya Touré

1907 – 08: Georges Poulet

1999 – 2004: Lamine Sidimé

1908 – 10: Victor Théophile Liotard

2004: François Lonseny Fall

1910: Georges Poulet

2004 – 06: Cellou Dalein Diallo

1910 – 12: Camille Lucien Xavier Guy

2007: Eugène Camara

1912 – 13: Jean Louis Georges Poiret

2007 – 08: Lansana Kouyaté

1913 – 15: Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne

2008 – 09: Ahmed Tidiane Souaré

1915 – 29: Jean Louis Georges Poiret

2009 – 10: Kabiné Komara

1929 – 31: Louis François Antonin

2010: Jean-Marie Doré

1931 - 32: Robert Paul Marie de Guise

2010 – 15: Mohamed Said Fofana

1932 – 36: Joseph Zébédée Olivier Vadier

2015 – 18: Mamady Youla

Governors/Gouverneurs

2018 -: Ibrahima Kassory Fofana

1936 – 40: Louis Placide Blacher

1940 – 42: Antoine Félix Giacobbi

1942 – 44: Horace Valentin Crocicchia

1944 – 46: Jacques Georges Fourneau

1946 – 48: Édouard Louis Terrac

1948 – 51: Roland Pré

1951 – 53: Paul Henri Siriex

1953 – 55: Jean Paul Parisot

1955 – 56: Charles-Henri Bonfils

1956 – 58: Jean Paul Ramadier

1958: Jean Mauberna

Presidents

1958 – 84: Ahmed Sékou Touré

1984: Louis Lansana Beavogui

1984 – 2008: Lansana Conté

2008: Aboubacar Somparé

2008 – 10: Moussa Dadis Camara

2010 -: Alpha Condé

Guinea-Bissau (portuguese)

s.XI – 1537: Mandinka/Mandinga

1537 – 1867: N´Gabu

1867 – 1974: Portugal

1974 – 77: State/Estado

1977 -: Republic/República

Governors/ Governadores Prime Ministers/ Primeiros-ministros

1901 – 03: Joaquim Pedro Vieira Judice Biker

1973 – 78: Francisco Mendès

1903 – 04: Alfredo Cardoso Soveral Martins

1978: Constantino Teixeira

1904: João Mateus Lapa Valente

1978 – 80: João Bernardo Vieira

1904 – 06: Carlos de Almeida Pessanha

1982 - 84: Victor Saúde Maria

1906 – 09: João Augusto de Oliveira Muzanty

1991 – 94: Carlos Correia

1909 – 10: Francelino Pimentel

1994 – 97: Manuel Saturnino da Costa

1910 – 13: Carlos de Almeida Pereira

1997 - 98: Carlos Correia

1913 – 14: José António de Andrade Sequeira

1998 – 2000: Francisco José Fadul

1914 – 15: José de Oliveira Duque

2000 – 01: Caetano N'Tchama

1915 – 17: José António de Andrade Sequeira

2001: Faustino Fudut Imbali

1917: Manuel Maria Coelho

2001 – 02: Alamara Ntchina Nhassè

1917 – 19: Carlos Ivo de Sá Ferreira

2002 – 03: Mário Pires

1919: José de Oliveira Duque

2003 – 04: António Artur Sanhá

1919: José Luis Teixeira Marinho

2004 – 05: Carlos Gomes Júnior

1919 – 20: Henrique Alberto de Sousa Guerra

2005 – 07: Aristides Gomes

1921 – 26: Jorge Frederico Vélez Caroco

2007 – 08: Martinho Ndafa Kabi

1927 – 31: António Leite de Magalhães

2008 – 09: Carlos Correia

1931 – 32: João José Soares Zilhão

2009 – 12: Carlos Gomes Júnior

1932 – 40: Luís António de Carvalho Viegas

2012: Maria Adiato Djaló Nandigna

1941 – 45: Ricardo Vaz Monteiro

2012 – 14: Rui Duarte de Barros

1945 – 49: Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues

2014 – 15: Domingos Simões Pereira

1951 – 53: Raimundo Antonio Rodrigues Serrão

2015: Baciro Djá

1954 – 56: Diogo António José Leite Pereira de Melo e Alvim

2015 – 16: Carlos Correia

1957 – 58: Álvaro Rodrigues da Silva Tavares

2016: Baciro Djá

1959 – 62: António Augusto Peixoto Correia

2016 – 18: Umaro Sissoco Embaló

1962 – 65: Vasco António Martínez Rodrigues

2018: Augusto António Artur da Silva

1965 – 68: Arnaldo Schulz

2018 – 20: Aristides Gomes

1968 – 73: António Sebastião Ribeiro de Spínola

2020 -: Nuno Gomes Nabiam

1973 – 74: José Manuel Bettencourt Rodrigues

1974: Mateus da Silva

1974: São Gouveia

1974: Carlos Fabião

Presidents/ Presidentes

1973 – 80: Luís de Almeida Cabral

1980 – 84: João Bernardo Vieira

1984: Carmen Pereira

1984 – 99: João Bernardo Vieira

1999: Ansumane Mané

1999 – 2000: Malan Bacai Sanhá

2000 – 03: Kumba Ialá

2003: Veríssimo Correia Seabra

2003 – 05: Henrique Pereira Rosa

2005 – 09: João Bernardo Vieira

2009: Raimundo Perreira

2009 – 12: Malam Bacai Sanhá

2012: Raimundo Perreira

2012: Mamadu Ture Kuruma

2012 – 14: Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo

2014 – 20: José Mário Vaz

2020 -: Umaro Sissoco Embaló