| Jim | Ali | A friend of Marie's father. Aka: Mr. Ali. |
| Ms. | Baptiste | Helene's teacher. |
| Bunchy | Carter | An American Activist. |
| Fidel | Castro | Former Prime Minister of Cuba. |
| Blaise | Compaore | Sankara's close friend. The Vice-President of Burkina Faso. |
| Chantal | Compaore | Blaise's wife. |
| Muammar | Gaddafi | The Libyan President. |
| Ric | Gold | Marie's boss. |
| Che | Guevarra | An Argentine Marxist revolutionary. |
| Felix | H. Boigny | Blaise's father-in-law. |
| Fred | Hampton | An American Activist. |
| Sam | Kinda | A member of the President's Security. |
| John | Le Carre | A Spy author. |
| Mrs. | Menoni | Marie's neighbor. |
| Agathe | Mitchell | Marie's mother. Aka: Meme. |
| Helene | Mitchell | Marie's sister. |
| Marie | Mitchell | Protagonist. Aka: Monica Williams, Maman. |
| Mr. | Mitchell | Marie's father. Aka: Pop. |
| Tommy | Mitchell | Marie's son. William's twin. |
| William | Mitchell | Marie's son. Tommy's twin. |
| Jean-Baptiste | Ouedraogo | Former President of Upper Volta. |
| Nicole | Ouedraogo | Daniel's secretary. |
| Jerry | Rawlings | The Ghana's head of the state. |
| Ed | Ross | Gold's colleague. Marie's workmate. |
| Mousbila | Sankara | Thomas's uncle. |
| Thomas | Sankara | The Burkina Faso President. The man that Marie spied. |
| Sharon | Scranage | A CIA clerk. |
| Mobutu Sese | Seko | The Congee President. |
| Daniel | Slater | The man who recommended Marie to be a spy. Helene's old friend. |
| Jonas | Some | The President of the National Student Union. |
| Michael | Soussoudis | Sharon's boyfriend. |
| Anna Mae | Squash | A Human Rights Activist. |
| Matt | Testaverde | Marie's friend. |
| Vincent | Traore | A member of the committee for the Defense of the Revolution. |
| Chris | Young | Robbie's son. |
| Pam | Young | Helene's best friend. Robbie's sister. |
| Robbie | Young | Marie's first boyfriend. |
| Aisha | | The only female informant of Marie. |
| Amid | | Issa's brother. |
| Asalfo | | The man with a radio at the café. |
| Bunny | | Marie's airedale. |
| Chickie | | Robbie's uncle. |
| Djeneba | | Marie's cook. |
| Fatimata | | Nicole's friend. |
| Freddy | | Helene's boyfriend. |
| Geneva | | Marie's former neighbor. |
| Irena | | Marie's neighbor. |
| Issa | | One of Daniel's spy agents. |
| Jean | | The guard. |
| Kamal | | The man that Marie met. |
| Leon | | Agathe's father. Marie's grandfather. |
| Marlon | | Aisha's son. |
| Marmaduke | | Pop's dog. |
| Mossi | | The Chief of Tema. |
| Nicolas | | Agathe's farmhand. |
| Peggy | | Marie's roommate. |
| Phillip | | Ed Ross's colleague. |
| Poochini | | Marie's german shepherd. |
| Ray | | The man in the picture. |
| Rhonda | | Helene's friend. |
| Roy | | Hippie. |
| Sido | | Agathe's sister. Marie's aunt. |
