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Oral history of Samory Toure Samory Toure (c. 1828 – June 2, 1900), a Muslim cleric, a military strategist, the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day north and south-eastern 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 Toure resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898. | Pakalinding

He Fought France for 16 Years—They Called Him Napoleon Samori Ture built the Wassoulou Empire and fought French colonization from eighteen eighty-two to eighteen ninety-eight—sixteen years of relentless resistance. Born around eighteen thirty, he started as a trader who sacrificed his freedom to rescue his mother from slavery. He learned warfare, united Mandinka clans, and built a professional army of thirty-five thousand soldiers armed with modern rifles. Called the "Napoleon of the Sudan," he