Samory Touré: The African King Who Resisted French Conquest for 17 Years Before His Capture and Exile

Samory Touré was an African king who built the powerful Wassoulou Empire across parts of present-day Guinea, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. For roughly 17 years, he resisted French colonial expansion through military resistance, diplomacy and guerrilla warfare. The French eventually captured him in 1898 and sent him into exile in Gabon. […] TalkAfricana