Although we may not label US governmentsLeast Educated African Presidents as Absolutely Bad In general, poor leadership in many African countries can be traced to the poorly educated backgrounds of their various presidents. This is because intelligence and education are indispensable components of good leadership. According to Plato, one of the ancient philosophers, a learned leader has a better chance of being more successful than his uneducated peer. Here are the least educated African presidents. At the moment with their educational qualifications. Embarrassingly, No. 1 has none!
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10. Denis Sassou-Nguesso – Republic of the Congo
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo since October 25, 1997, teaches at a teacher training college in Dolisie. He then received military training at the Officers’ Schools of Cherchell, Algeria, and at the Infantry Academy of Saint-Maixent, France, between 1961 and 1963.
9. Joseph Kabila – Democratic Republic of the Congo
edu. Qualification: high school diploma
Joseph Kabila’s only known academic certification is a high school certificate, but he is educated at the PLA National Defense University in Beijing, China, and after his high school education went on to military studies in Tanzania and at Makerere University in Uganda.
8. Isaias Afwerki – Eritrea
edu. Qualification: secondary school (drop out)
Isaias grew up in Asmara and graduated from Prince Makonnen High School in 1965. His good marks in the high school finals in his senior year of high school earned him admission to the highly competitive College of Engineering at Haile Selassie I University (now Addis Ababa- University) in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia. A year later, however, he failed the exam, interrupted his studies and decided to join the Eritrean liberation struggle.
7. Abdelaziz Bouteflika – Algeria
edu. Qualification: secondary school
Bouteflika grew up in Oujda, where his father had emigrated as a youth. There he attended three schools in succession: Sidi Ziane, El Hoceinia and Abdel Moumen High School, where he reportedly excelled academically.
6. Paul Kagame – Rwanda
edu. Qualification: secondary school
Kagame began his primary education at a school near the refugee camp, where he and other Rwandan refugees learned English and began to assimilate into Ugandan culture. At the age of nine, he switched to the prestigious Rwengoro Elementary School, about 16 kilometers away, and graduated from there with the best grades in the district. He then attended Ntare School, one of the best schools in Uganda. It is also the alma mater of future Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The death of Kagame’s father in the early 1970s and Rwigyema’s departure to an undisclosed location led to a decline in his academic performance and an increased tendency to fight against those who disparaged the Rwandan people.
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5. Muhammadu Buhari – Nigeria
Edu.Qualification: Secondary school
He attended elementary school in Daura and Mai’adua before attending Katsina Model School in 1953 and Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College, Katsina) from 1956 to 1961.
4. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir – Sudan
edu. Qualification: Secondary school
Al-Bashir was born in Hosh Bannaga, north of the capital Khartoum to a family of Arab descent. He belongs to Al-Bedairyya Al-Dahmashyya, a Bedouin tribe of the larger Ja’alin coalition, an Arab tribe in north-central Sudan that was formerly part of the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan. He received his primary education there, and his family later moved to Khartoum where he completed his secondary education.
3. Ismaïl Omar Guelleh – Djibouti
edu. Qualification: Secondary school
Guelleh was born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, politically powerful Mamassan subclan of the Issa clan. When Guelleh was younger, he attended a traditional Islamic school. In the late 1960s, Guelleh emigrated to Djibouti before finishing high school. Later he joined the police and became a non-commissioned officer. He entered service in 1968.
2. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz – MAURITANIA
Edu.Qualification: None (military training)
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was born on December 20, 1956. In 1977 he joined the Royal Military Academy in Meknes, Morocco and after a series of promotions formed the elite BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion). He played a key role in suppressing an attempted coup in June 2003 and a military insurgency in August 2004.
1. Salva Kiir Mayardit
edu. Qualification: None (military training)
Salva Kiir entered the military very tender. He is not known to have received any formal education, which is why he ranks first on the list of least educated African presidents following the resignation of South African Jacob Zuma. Born in 1951, Kiir joined the Anyanya Battalion in the First Sudanese Civil War in the late 1960s. At the time of the 1972 Addis Ababa Accords, he was a low-ranking officer.