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Samori Ture
Activist · 1830–1900
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Samori Ture was a Muslim military leader who founded and governed the Wassoulou Empire in West Africa. He built a disciplined state and army, then pursued sustained resistance against French colonial expansion. After French forces captured him in 1898, he was exiled to Gabon, where he died in 1900.
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