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Samory Touré

c. 1830–1900 · West Africa · Modern

Founded the Wassoulou state and resisted French colonial forces for years.

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West Africa
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Founded the Wassoulou state and resisted French colonial forces for years.

Samory Touré (c. 1830–1900) endures among the great of West Africa. Founded the Wassoulou state and resisted French colonial forces for years. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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