[{"n": "Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/jassim-bin-mohammed-al-thani/", "s": "Founder of Qatar, leader, poet, and opponent of foreign domination."}, {"n": "Jean-Bédel Bokassa", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/jean-b-del-bokassa/", "s": "Self-proclaimed Emperor of the Central African Empire who ruled from 1966 to 1979."}, {"n": "Jomo Kenyatta", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/jomo-kenyatta/", "s": "First President of Kenya, anti-colonial activist and KANU leader."}, {"n": "Joseph Jenkins Roberts", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/joseph-jenkins-roberts/", "s": "First and seventh president of independent Liberia."}, {"n": "Joseph Kabila", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/joseph-kabila/", "s": "Fourth president of the DRC who ended the Second Congo War."}, {"n": "Joseph Kasa-Vubu", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/joseph-kasa-vubu/", "s": "First president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo."}, {"n": "Juvénal Habyarimana", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/juv-nal-habyarimana/", "s": "Rwandan president whose assassination triggered a full-scale genocide."}, {"n": "Julius Nyerere", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/julius-nyerere/", "s": "Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and architect of Ujamaa socialism."}, {"n": "Khorloogiin Choibalsan", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/khorloogiin-choibalsan/", "s": "Mongolian revolutionary and Stalinist leader who organized purges."}, {"n": "Koxinga", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/koxinga/", "s": "Southern Ming general who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan."}, {"n": "Laurent-Désiré Kabila", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/laurent-d-sir-kabila/", "s": "President of the DRC assassinated by a former child soldier bodyguard."}, {"n": "Lij Iyasu", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/lij-iyasu/", "s": "Designated but uncrowned Emperor of Ethiopia (1913–1916)"}, {"n": "Lobengula", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/lobengula/", "s": "Second and last official king of the Ndebele nation."}, {"n": "Léon M'ba", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/l-on-m-ba/", "s": "First Prime Minister and President of Gabon."}, {"n": "Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/maaouya-ould-sid-ahmed-taya/", "s": "Mauritanian president who pursued Arab nationalism and close US ties."}, {"n": "Manuel Pinto da Costa", "u": "/e/african-and-asian-leaders/manuel-pinto-da-costa/", "s": "First president of São Tomé and Príncipe, served two non-consecutive terms."}]