| 100% | KENYATTA | 8 | Uhuru ___, aptly named president of an African nation |
| 47% | SAOTOME | 7 | Capital of an African island nation |
| 46% | KENYATTA | 8 | First President of Kenya as an independent nation |
| 44% | IVORIAN | 7 | Resident of an African country named after a prized animal product |
| 44% | GHAI | 4 | Part of an old United Nations name |
| 42% | YOUVEGOTMALI | 12 | Start of an oral listing of African nations, perhaps? |
| 42% | MONROVIA | 8 | African capital named for an American president |
| 42% | MALAWI | 6 | African nation whose name consists of three U.S. state postal abbreviations |
| 42% | RAINBOW | 7 | __ Nation, nickname of an African country |
| 40% | POLK | 4 | James ___, 11th President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "joke lamps" |
| 39% | ANDREW | 6 | ___ Johnson, 17th President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "non horned jaws" |
| 39% | WILSON | 6 | Woodrow ___, 28th President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "wow, indoor owls!" |
| 39% | CARTER | 6 | Jimmy ___, 39th President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "my metric jar" |
| 39% | GARFIELD | 8 | James ___, 20th President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "failed gem jars" |
| 39% | EROS | 4 | Love god whose name is aptly an anagram of 5-Across |
| 38% | TANZANIA | 8 | East African nation whose name is a meld of its two former states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| 38% | BUSH | 4 | George W. ___, 43rd President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "where bugs go" |
| 38% | THEODORE | 8 | ___ Roosevelt, 26th President of the USA whose name is an anagram of "love the rooster ode" |
| 38% | SEGA | 4 | Company whose name, aptly, is an anagram of GAMES minus a letter |
| 37% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | South African president who became an honorary citizen of Canada in 2001: 2 wds. |
| 37% | GNUDEAL | 7 | Purchase of an African antelope? |
| 37% | ADDIS | 5 | Start of an African capital |
| 36% | ABABA | 5 | Half of an African capital city |
| 36% | ABABA | 5 | Palindromic half of an African capital |
| 36% | YETI | 4 | Aptly named brand of coolers |
| 36% | ZAIRE | 5 | African nation's former name |
| 36% | CHAD | 4 | African nation or preppy name |
| 36% | TOGO | 4 | African nation east of Ghana |
| 36% | ERITREA | 7 | African nation north of Ethiopia |
| 35% | ARAB | 4 | ___ Republic of Egypt (full name of an African country) |