Mohammad Dinah Salifou | |
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Roi des Nalous | |
In office 1885–1890 | |
Preceded by | Youra Tawel |
Personal details | |
Born | Mohammad Dinah Salifou Camara c.1830 Fouta Djallon |
Died | 17 October 1897 Saint-Louis du Sénégal |
Children | Ibrahima Dinah Salifou, Khaly Salifou |
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Mohammad Dinah Salifou Camara (died 21 October 1897) was the last king of the Nalu people of Guinea. He is often presented as one of the great figures of resistance to colonial penetration into sub-Saharan Africa, but also has some notoriety for his noted participation at Expo 1889 in Paris. At the end of his life, he was exiled to Saint-Louis, Senegal,[1] under house arrest, where he died in poverty. Dinah Salifou was the holder of the Légion d'honneur.