African Lightweight Champion
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Lightweight champion as recognized by the African Boxing Union.
- The maximum weight for this division is 135 pounds (61.2 kg or 9 stone 9 lbs).
- One of the traditional eight divisions.
RELATED LINK: African Lightweight Title Fights
| Reign Began | Reign Ended | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ould Makloufi | 1973 Dec 15 | 1977 Mar 1S | 1 |
| 2 | Aziza Bossou | 1978 Apr 29 | 1981 Feb 24S | 1 |
| 3 | John Sichula | 1982 Sept 2 | 1983 Apr 1S | 0 |
| 4 | Davidson Andeh | 1983 Apr 29 | 1984 Mar 17S | 0 |
| 5 | Sam Ago Kotey | 1984 Nov 6 | 1986 Jul 10S | 0 |
| 6 | Akwei Addo | 1988 Feb 13 | 1990 Jul 5S | 1 |
| 7 | Christopher Ossai | 1992 Jan 31 | 1993 Oct 1S | 1 |
| 8 | David Tetteh | 1993 Dec 4 | 1995 May 1S | 0 |
| 9 | Chikoya Mphande | 1995 Jun 24 | 1995 Dec 1V | 0 |
| 10 | Ben Tackie | 1995 Dec 22 | 1998 Apr 17S | 1 |
| 11 | Charles Owiso | 1999 Dec 31 | 2001 Mar 7S | 0 |
| 12 | Abdullai Amidu | 2003 Jun 28 | 2005 Feb 12S | 0 |
| 13 | Joshua Allotey | 2005 Dec 3 | 2006 Nov 4V | 1 |
| 14 | Sam Rukundo | 2007 Nov 24 | 2010 Feb 19S | 1 |
| 15 | George Ashie | 2012 Apr 14 | 2012 Nov 10S | 0 |
| 16 | Keith Nkosi | 2012 Dec 3 | 2013 Sept 1S | 0 |
| 17 | Richard Commey | 2013 Dec 26 | 2015 Mar 14S | 0 |
| 18 | Hedi Slimani | 2015 Nov 11 | 2016 Sept 1S | 0 |
| 19 | Patrick Kinigamazi | 2016 Nov 18 | 2017 May 1S | 0 |
| 20 | Lunga Stimela | 2017 May 26 | 2017 Nov 24S | 0 |
| 21 | Otto Joseph | 2017 Dec 26 | Present | 2 |
R - Retired
S - Stripped
V - Vacated