Samory Toure (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.
A deeply religious Muslim of the Maliki school of religious jurisprudence of Sunni Islam, he organized his empire and justified its expansion with Islamic principles. Toure resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898.
He was the great-grandfather of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré.[1]
^Webster, James & Boahen, Adu (1980), The Revolutionary Years; West Africa Since 1800, p. 324.
Samory Toure (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military...
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1800s as a key commercial center and center of Islamic studies. In 1898, SamoriTure attacked the city and burnt it down. Although the city was rebuilt, the...
campaigns throughout her career, notably working with SamoriTure, a king from Guinea. She prevented Ture from destroying her people by plying him with gifts...
1870s to the 1890s under the rule of prominent Mandinka Muslim cleric SamoriTure. Also later a significantly large population of Mandinka from Guinea...
force to establish a fort there on February 1, 1883.: 76 Kebe Brema, Samori's brother, led a force to Bamako to lure the French out of their defenses...
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between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by SamoriTure. Comparatively, the French faced serious resistance by the Mandinka,...
Wassulu Empire of SamoriTure in West Africa. The first hostilities between France and SamoriTure began in early 1882, after Samori's forces laid siege...
weakened the kingdom. In 1895 the city of Kong was sacked and conquered by SamoriTure of the Wassoulou Empire. The Abron kingdom of Gyaaman was established...
contain the Camayanne Mausoleum, including the tombs of the national hero SamoriTure, Sékou Touré and Alfa Yaya. The mosque suffers from a lack of maintenance...
Kenya. Camayanne Mausoleum, monumental grave of Guinea's national heroes SamoriTure, Sekou Toure, and Alfa Yaya in the Grand Mosque of Conakry. Nnamdi Azikiwe's...
(1878–1898), a short-lived empire built from the conquests of Dyula ruler SamoriTure and destroyed by the French colonial army. Akwa Akpa (18th century),...
Guinea on National Road 1. In the 19th century, it was the base for SamoriTure, a Dyula warlord who named the city in 1878 as the capital of his Wassoulou...
centered the society around slavery. The dynasty in an alliance with SamoriTure fought French colonization until 1898. The kingdom was founded by Vakaba...
Algiers in Algeria, where she died in 1917. From 1882 until his capture, SamoriTure, ruler of the Wassoulou Empire, fought the French colonial army, defeating...
military governor in 1892. Archinard led military campaigns against SamoriTure, Ahmadu Tall, and other resistant leaders in the region, with varying...
emissaries to join the theocratic alliance led by SamoriTure and signed the peace treaty with him. While Samori was trying to conquering the Cissé kingdom,...
In 1876 the capital was moved to Sikasso. It resisted the effort of SamoriTure, leader of Wassoulou Empire, in 1887, to conquer it, and was one of the...
Though not strictly a jihadist state, the Wassoulou Empire, founded by SamoriTure, was a significant Islamic state during this period. Located in what...
grandson of Samory Touré Diarra Traoré, former Prime Minister of Guinea SamoriTure, founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic military state that resisted...
politics of the Mongol Ilkhanate. Negudar - Mongol general and noyan SamoriTure - founder of the Wassoulou Empire who resisted French rule in West Africa...
broad plateau at the edge of the kola zone, and was the birthplace of SamoriTure. Peter J. M. McEwan, Africa from Early Times to 1800 (Oxford U.P., 1968)...
1813) May 28 – Sir George Grove, English music writer (b. 1820) June 2 – SamoriTure, West African empire-builder (b. 1830) June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English...
western regions, where a standoff against the forces of the powerful ruler SamoriTure complicated the situation, came under French occupation in 1897. By 1898...
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