Samori Ture
African warlord and religious leader, founder of the Wassoulou Empire
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 southeastern 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 school of religious jurisprudence of Sunni Islam.
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Quotes about Samori Toure edit
- Samori Toure was a military genius and a political innovator, who went further than the others in setting up a political administration where a sense of loyalty could prevail over the above clans, localities, and ethnic groups.
- Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Howard University Press. 1972. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-9501546-4-0.
