Today, we unravel the life of the 4th youngest President in Africa and unarguably the youngest President of Gabon who became president in 1967 at the age of 31… He also reserves the record as the longest serving head of state in Africa and the world at large…from 1967 until he died in 2009.
Born on the 30th of December 1935, Lewai, Gabon (formerly known as French Equatorial Africa). Omar Bongo was the youngest child of twelve siblings.
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