32 Members (excluding the associate or suspended members but including the countries represented on their behalf) [The rulers are not necessarily the representatives in the organisation. ] :
 |  | UPPER VOLTA | (Ouagadougou) |  | General Aboubakar Sangoule Lamizana |  | |
 |  | BURUNDI | (Bujumbura) |  | President Michel Micombero | | |
 |  | DAHOMEY | (Porto Novo a + Cotonou ilnqr) |  | President Hubert Maga | | |
 |  | CONGO-KINSHASA | (Kinshasa a) |  | President Joseph-Desire Mobutu | | |
 |  | CENTRAL-AFRICAN | (Bangui) |  | President Jean-Bedel Bokassa | | |
 |  | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE | (Brazzaville a) |  | President Marien Ngouabi | | |
 |  | IVORY COAST | (Abidjan a) |  | President Felix Houphouet-Boigny | | |
 |  | CAMEROON | (Yaounde) |  | President Ahmadou Ahidjo | | |
 |  | ALGERIA | (Algiers a + El Biar d + El Mouradia r) |  | President Houari Boumedienne | | |
 |  | UNITED ARAB | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | President Anwar El-Sadat | | |
 |  | ETHIOPIA | (Addis Ababa) |  | Emperor Ras Tafari Haile Selassie I | | |
 |  | GHANA | (Accra) |  | President Edward Akufo-Addo | | |
 |  | GUINEA | (Conakry) |  | President Ahmed Sekou Toure | | |
 |  | KENYA | (Nairobi) |  | President Jomo Kenyatta | | |
 |  | LIBERIA | (Monrovia) |  | President William Tubman | | |
 |  | MOROCCO | (Rabat a) |  | King Hassan II | | |
 |  | MALI | (Bamako) |  | President Moussa Traore | | |
 |  | MAURITANIA | (Nouakchott) |  | President Moktar Ould Daddah | | |
 |  | MALAWI | (Zomba) |  | President Hastings Banda | | |
 |  | NIGER | (Niamey) |  | President Hamani Diori | | |
 |  | NIGERIA | (Lagos a) |  | Yakubu Gowon | | |
 |  | RWANDA | (Kigali) |  | President Gregoire Kayibanda | | |
 |  | SUDAN | (Khartoum) |  | Gaafar Muhammad Numairy | | |
 |  | SIERRA LEONE | (Freetown) |  | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | SENEGAL | (Dakar) |  | President Leopold Sedar Senghor | | |
 |  | SOMALIA | (Mogadishu) |  | President Muhammad Siad Barre | | |
 |  | CHAD | (Fort Lamy) |  | President Francois Tombalbaye | | |
 |  | TOGO | (Lome) |  | President Etienne Eyadema | | |
 |  | TUNISIA | (Tunis) |  | President Habib Bourguiba | | |
 |  | TANZANIA | (Dar Es Salaam) |  | President Julius Nyerere | | |
 |  | UGANDA | (Kampala a + Entebbe r) |  | President Idi Amin Dada | | |
 |  | ZAMBIA | (Lusaka) |  | President Kenneth Kaunda | | |
