A cikin Afirka bayan mulkin mallaka, "mahaifin al'umma" lakabi ne da shugabannin da yawa ke amfani da shi duka don komawa ga rawar da suka taka a cikin yunkurin samun 'yanci a matsayin tushen halal, da kuma amfani da alamomin uba a matsayin tushen ci gaba da shahara. A ranar haihuwar Joseph Stalin na shekara saba'in a 1949, an ba shi lakabin "Mahaifin Al'ummai" saboda kafa "democrats na mutane" a cikin ƙasashen da USSR ta mamaye bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II.Sunan "Mahaifin Al'umma" wani lokacin ana jayayya da siyasa. Tsarin Mulki na 1972 na Bangladesh ya ayyana Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a matsayin "mahaifin al'umma". Gwamnatin BNP ta cire wannan a cikin 2004, wanda ya haifar da zanga-zangar Jam'iyyar Awostami, ta hannun 'yar Sheikh Rahman. Hasina A cikin majalisar dokokin Slovakia ta yi ikirarin cewa Hrej Hlinka ya jagoranci jagorancin yakin basasa. Kuma ya jagoranci "Mahaifin Al'umma" a matsayin Sakatare Janar Tarayyar Soviet daga 1953 zuwa tsakiyar Satumba 20. Tambaya: Wanene
Joseph Stalin