African Flags and Capitals

Here is a video that shows the capital cities of African countries and their flags (we looked up the leaders, too). There are also lots of jingles and even a rap song on youtube for learning the African capitals.

There’s a much longer video (about 17 mins) that just shows a map and Barnaby Lenon draws the countries in with little bits of information about the different regions. For example, he mentions that Monrovia, Liberia was named after the 4th president of the USA, James Monroe. This is cool, too.

You can memorize a list of countries and capitals without that much effort, but what good is that knowledge if you don’t really know where it is on a map, what countries are its neighbors and stuff like that? You see that on the quiz show Jeopardy! from time to time. The players know capital cities but they have no real knowledge of world geography. Even champs have been known to get tripped up by the clues.

Here’s the list: country, capital, leader —
Last update: 4/21/2018
A
Algeria – Algiers – Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Angola – Luanda – João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço
B
Benin – Porto Novo – Patrice Talon
Botswana – Gaborone – Mokgweetsi Masisi
Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou – Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Burundi – Bujumbura – Pierre Nkurunziza
C
Cameroon – Yaoundé – Paul Biya
Cape Verde – Praia – Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Central African Republic – Bangui – Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Chad – N’Djamena – Idriss Déby
Comoros – Moroni – Azali Assoumani
Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) – Yamoussoukra – Alassane Ouattara
D
Democratic Republic of the Congo – Kinshasa – Joseph Kabila
Djibouti – Djibouti – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
E
Egypt – Cairo – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Equatorial Guinea – Malabo – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Eritrea – Asmara – Isaias Afewerki
Eswati (formerly Swaziland) – Mbabane – King Mswati III
Ethiopia – Addis Ababa – Mulatu Teshome
G
Gabon – Libreville – Ali Bongo Ondimba
Gambia – Banjul – Adama Barrow
Ghana – Accra – Nana Akufo-Addo
Guinea – Conakry – Alpha Condé
Guinea-Bissau – Bissau – José Mário Vaz
K
Kenya – Nairobi – Uhuru Kenyatta
L
Lesotho – Maseru – King Letsie III, Prime Minister: Tom Thabane
Liberia – Monrovia – George Weah
Libya – Tripoli – Fayez al-Sarraj
M
Madagascar – Antananarivo – Hery Rajaonarimampianina
Malawi – Lilongwe – Peter Mutharika
Mali – Bamako – Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
Mauritania – Nouakchatt – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Mauritius – Port Louis – Barlen Vyapoory
Morocco – Rabat – King Mohammed VI, Prime Minister: Saadeddine Othmani
Mozambique – Maputo – Filipe Nyusi
N
Namibia – Windhoek – Hage Geingob
Niger – Niamey – Mahamadou Issoufou
Nigeria – Abuja – Muhammadu Buhari
R
Republic of Congo – Brazzaville – Denis Sassou Nguesso
Rwanda – Kigali – Paul Kagame
S
São Tomé and Príncipe – São Tomé – Evaristo Carvalho
Senegal – Dakar – Macky Sall
Seychelles – Victoria – Danny Faure
Sierra Leone – Freetown – Julius Maada Bio
Somalia – Mogadishu – Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
South Africa – Pretoria (executive); Bloemfontein (judicial); and
Cape Town (legislative) – Cyril Ramaphosa
South Sudan – Juba – Salva Kiir Mayardit
Sudan – Khartoum – Omar al-Bashir
T
Tanzania – Dodoma – John Magufuli
Togo – Lomé – Faure Gnassingbé
Tunisia – Tunis – Beji Caid Essebsi
U
Uganda – Kampala – Yoweri Museveni
Z
Zambia – Lusaka – Edgar Lungu
Zimbabwe – Harare – Emmerson Mnangagwa