40 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 Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | | |
 |  | BENIN | (Porto Novo a + Cotonou ilnqr) |  | President Mathieu Kerekou | | |
 |  | BOTSWANA | (Gaborone) |  | President Seretse Khama | | |
 |  | ZAIRE | (Kinshasa a) |  | President Mobutu Sese Seko | | |
 |  | CENTRAL-AFRICA | (Bangui a + Berengo r) |  | Emperor Bokassa I | | |
 |  | CONGO | (Brazzaville a) |  | President Denis Sassou-Nguesso | | |
 |  | IVORY COAST | (Abidjan a) |  | President Felix Houphouet-Boigny | | |
 |  | CAMEROON | (Yaounde) |  | President Ahmadou Ahidjo | | |
 |  | JIBUTI | (Jibuti) |  | President Hassan Gouled Aptidon | | |
 |  | ALGERIA | (Algiers a + El Biar d + El Mouradia r) |  | President Chadli Bendjedid | | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | President Anwar El-Sadat | | |
 |  | ETHIOPIA | (Addis Ababa) |  | Mengistu Haile Mariam | | |
 |  | GABON | (Libreville) |  | President Omar Bongo | | |
 |  | GHANA | (Accra) |  | Fred Akuffo | | |
 |  | THE GAMBIA | (Banjul) |  | President Sir Dawda Jawara | | |
 |  | GUINEA | (Conakry) |  | President Ahmed Sekou Toure | | |
 |  | KENYA | (Nairobi) |  | President Daniel Arap Moi | | |
 |  | LIBERIA | (Monrovia) |  | President William Richard Tolbert Jr | | |
 |  | LESOTHO | (Maseru) |  | King Moshoeshoe II | | |
 |  | LIBYA | (Tripoli a) |  | Guide Muammar Gaddafi | | |
 |  | MADAGASCAR | (Tananarive) |  | President Didier Ratsiraka | | |
 |  | MALI | (Bamako) |  | President Moussa Traore | | |
 |  | MAURITANIA | (Nouakchott) |  | Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek | | |
 |  | MAURITIUS | (Port Louis a + Reduit in Moka r) |  | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | MALAWI | (Lilongwe a + Zomba b) |  | President Hastings Banda | | |
 |  | NIGER | (Niamey) |  | President Seyni Kountche | | |
 |  | NIGERIA | (Lagos a + Abuja f) |  | Olusegun Obasanjo | | |
 |  | RWANDA | (Kigali) |  | President Juvenal Habyarimana | | |
 |  | SEYCHELLES | (Port Victoria) |  | President France-Albert Rene | | |
 |  | SUDAN | (Khartoum) |  | President Gaafar Muhammad Numairy | | |
 |  | SIERRA LEONE | (Freetown) |  | President Siaka Stevens | | |
 |  | SENEGAL | (Dakar) |  | President Leopold Sedar Senghor | | |
 |  | SOMALIA | (Mogadishu) |  | President Muhammad Siad Barre | | |
 |  | SWAZILAND | (Mbabane aj + Lobamba lr) |  | King Sobhuza II | | |
 |  | CHAD | (Ndjamena) |  | Gukuni Wodei | | |
 |  | TOGO | (Lome) |  | President Gnassingbe Eyadema | | |
 |  | TUNISIA | (Tunis) |  | President Habib Bourguiba | | |
 |  | TANZANIA | (Dar Es Salaam a + Dodoma f) |  | President Julius Nyerere | | |
 |  | UGANDA | (Kampala a + Jinja r) |  | President Idi Amin Dada | | |
