Samori Ture
Emperor of the Wassoulou Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samory Toure (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Muslim cleric, a military strategist, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day north and south-eastern Guinea and included part of north-eastern Sierra Leone, part of Mali, part of northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso. Samori Ture was a deeply religious Muslim of the Maliki jurisprudence of Sunni Islam.
| Samory Toure | |
|---|---|
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| Emperor of the Wassoulou Empire | |
| Reign | 1878–1898 |
| Predecessor | position established |
| Successor | position abolished |
| Born | c. 1828 Manyambaladugu |
| Died | June 2, 1900(1900-06-02) (aged 71–72) Gabon |
| House | Dyula |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Toure resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898. Samori Toure was the great-grandfather of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré.[citation needed]