The continent of Africa is one of the standouts in terms of land size and population ranking just behind Asia as the most populous continent on earth.

African countries and their current presidents 2022

The following list shows a matchup between countries in Africa and their heads of state;

No.	Country	Head of State	Tenure
1.	Algeria	Abdelmadjid Tebboune	2019 – present
2.	Angola	João Lourenço	2017 – present
3.	Benin	Patrice Talon	2016 – present
4.	Botswana	Mokgweetsi Masisi	2018 – present
5.	Burkina Faso	Roch Marc Christian Kaboré	2015 – present
6.	Burundi	Évariste Ndayishimiye	2020 – present
7.	Cameroon	Paul Biya	1982 – present
8.	Cape Verde	Jorge Carlos Fonseca	2011 – present
9.	Central African Republic	Faustin-Archange Touadéra	2016 – present
10.	Chad	Military Junta	2021 – present
11.	Comoros	Azali Assoumani	2016 – present
12.	Republic of the Congo	Denis Sassou Nguesso	1997 – resent
13.	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Félix Tshisekedi	2019 – present
14.	Djibouti	Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	1999 – present
15.	Egypt	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	2014 – present
16.	Equatorial Guinea	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	1979 – present
17.	Eritrea	Isaias Afwerki	1991 – present
18.	Eswatini	Mswati III	1986 – present
19.	Ethiopia	Sahle-Work Zewde	2018 – present
20.	Gabon	Ali Bongo Ondimba	2009 – present
21.	The Gambia	Adama Barrow	2017 – present
22.	Ghana	Nana Akufo-Addo	2017 – present
23.	Guinea	Alpha Condé	2010 – present
24.	Guinea-Bissau	Umaro Sissoco Embaló	2020 – present
25.	Ivory Coast	Alassane Ouattara	2010 – present
26.	Kenya	Uhuru Kenyatta	2013 – present
27.	Lesotho	Letsie III	1996 – present
28.	Liberia	George Weah	2018 – present
29.	Libya	Fayez al-Sarraj	2016 – present
30.	Madagascar	Andry Rajoelina	2019 – present
31.	Malawi	Lazarus Chakwera	2020 – present
32.	Mali	Bah Ndaw	2020 – present
33.	Mauritania	Mohamed Ould Ghazouani	2020 – present
34.	Mauritius	Prithvirajsing Roopun	2019 – present
35.	Morocco	Mohammed VI	1999 – present
36.	Mozambique	Filipe Nyusi	2015 – present
37.	Namibia	Hage Geingob	2015 – present
38.	Niger	Mahamadou Issoufou	2011 – present
39.	Nigeria	Muhammadu Buhari	2015 – present
40.	Rwanda	Paul Kagame	2000 – present
41.	São Tomé and Príncipe	Evaristo Carvalho	2016 – present
42.	Senegal	Macky Sall	2012 – present
43.	Seychelles	Danny Faure	2016 – present
44.	Sierra Leone	Julius Maada Bio	2018 – present
45.	Somalia	Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed	2017 – present
46.	South Africa	Cyril Ramaphosa	2018 – present
47.	South Sudan	Salva Kiir Mayardit	2005 – present
48.	Sudan	Sovereignty Council	2019 – present
49.	Tanzania	Samia Suluhu Hassan	2021 – present
50.	Togo	Faure Gnassingbé	2005 – present
51.	Tunisia	Kais Saied	2019 – present
52.	Uganda	Yoweri Museveni	1986 – present
53.	Zambia	Hakainde Hichilema	2021 – present
54.	Zimbabwe	Emmerson Mnangagwa

List of African Countries and their Presidents 2022.