Browsing: Ahmed Sekou Touré

Guinea’s founding leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré – one of Africa’s leading statesmen of all time – was born on this day (9 January) in 1922. As…

Guinea’s first president and Pan-Africanist leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922-84), championed the revolutionary idea that Africa should ‘liquidate all dependence complex’ by striving to achieve ‘real’…

The West African country of Guinea gained independence on this day, 2 October 1958, after 65 years of French rule. When French President Charles de Gaulle…