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Corazon Aquino was a Philippine political leader who served as the first female president (1986–92) of the Philippines, restoring democratic rule in that country after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Corazon Cojuangco was born into a wealthy, politically prominent family based in Tarlac

Idi Amin was a military officer and president (1971–79) of Uganda whose regime was noted for the sheer scale of its brutality. A member of the small Kakwa ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, Amin had little formal education and joined the King’s African Rifles of the British colonial army in 1946

Encyclopædia Britannica’s first biography of Nelson Mandela appeared in print in 1965, published in the Britannica Book of the Year prepared by Britannica’s London office: This biography was imprecise in places—Mandela, for example, was born in the village of Mvezo, in the Umtata district of the

F.W. de Klerk was a politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela jointly received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace for their collaboration in