Thread by @DavidHundeyin

African Dictator Olympics, West Africa Edition:

Genocide Murtala, Buhari Mark I, Letter Bomb Babangida, Indian Apple Abacha, Firing Squad Rawlings, papa Eyadema, le pikin de papa Eyadema, I-kill-your-mother-you-vote-for-me-anyway Taylor, Idris Déby, Samuel Doe, Blaise Campaore

Central Africa Edition:

Paul 'Geneva' Biya, Emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa, Mobutu Sese se Ko Kuku n Gbendu wa'aza Banga

Southern African Edition:

F.W. 'Shoot a bunch of schoolchildren' de Klerk, Ian 'massacre and stuff bodies down mine shafts' Smith, Uncle Mugabenomics Bob.

North African Edition:

Muammar 'Teenage Slave Harem' Ghadaffi, Hosni '$70bn' Mubarak, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Fatah el 'civilian field marshall' Sisi, Omar Genocide Bashir.

East African Edition (every one was a hit back to back).

Julius Nyererenomics, The Last King of Scotland and somethingsomething Uganda In Particular, Dan Arap-will-shoot-you Moi, Pierre Nkurun-utter-bastard, Paul 'Serengeti Hitler' Kagame...

These guys need a part 2...

Yoweri 'Everlasting Life' Museveni, J.P. Magu-can't-see-me-fuli, Juvenal Habyarimana (yes, he was too), Mengistu Haile-of-bullets Miriam, Siad Barre, whichever sad person is responsible for Eritrea...

Special mention to family tag team Laurent and Joseph Kabila.

Can't believe I omitted Basilica connoiseur Houphouët-Boigny and convicted human rights criminal Hassène Habré from West Africa's list of athletes.

Also a big shout out to family tag team Joseph and Laurent Kabila literally holding it down in the DRC.

Honourable mention to the budding dictators who never got to evolve into complete maximum rulership before their lives were tragically cut short:

Thomas Sankara, Aguiyi Ironsi.

Late Southern Africa Edition wild card entry: Emerson Mnangagwa