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Samori Ture

1830 - 1900

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Samori Ture (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Malinke and a Soninke Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of a massive empire that 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. Ture 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samori Ture is the 6,671st most popular politician (down from 5,523rd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Guinea and the 5th most popular Guinean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samori Ture ranks 6,671 out of 19,576. Before him are Bona of Savoy, Joan III, Countess of Burgundy, Sidónio Pais, Henry Pelham, Matvei Zakharov, and Anker Jørgensen. After him are Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, King Kang of Zhou, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, and Erich Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Samori Ture ranks 29. Before him are Oliver Otis Howard, Jules de Goncourt, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, and Adèle Hugo. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, Carmine Crocco, François-Marie Raoult, Aga Khan II, Theodor Leschetizky, and Yoshida Shōin. Among people deceased in 1900, Samori Ture ranks 29. Before him are Mary Kingsley, Isaac Levitan, Naim Frashëri, Zdeněk Fibich, Princess Josephine of Baden, and José Maria de Eça de Queirós. After him are Kuroda Kiyotaka, Mihály Munkácsy, Stephen Crane, Eugenio Beltrami, Pyotr Lavrov, and Vasily Kalinnikov.

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In Guinea

Among people born in Guinea, Samori Ture ranks 6 out of 49. Before him are Robert Sarah (1945), Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922), Alpha Condé (1938), Lansana Conté (1934), and Sundiata Keita (1190). After him are Mory Kanté (1950), Louis Lansana Beavogui (1923), Nanfadima Magassouba (null), Moussa Dadis Camara (1964), Solomana Kante (1922), and Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guinea

Among politicians born in Guinea, Samori Ture ranks 5. Before him are Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922), Alpha Condé (1938), Lansana Conté (1934), and Sundiata Keita (1190). After him are Louis Lansana Beavogui (1923), Nanfadima Magassouba (null), Moussa Dadis Camara (1964), Eugène Camara (1942), Jean-Marie Doré (1938), Mohamed Said Fofana (1952), and Ahmed Tidiane Souaré (1951).

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