Moi and Thatcher shared some uncanny peculiarities

He added a leopard skin cap to complete his symbols of power.

Founding Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda had the white handkerchief.

It was synonymous with the man who often waved it and wiped tears to bemoan Zambia as a country whose citizens had become drunkards during the economic hardships of the 1980s.

In Germany, Adolf Hitler had the swastika, which still haunts the world as a symbol of the holocaust.