Samori Ture
Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire
Years: 1830 - 1900
Samori Ture (c. 1830 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, is a Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that is in present-day north and southeastern Guinea and includes part of northeastern Sierra Leone, part of Mali, part of northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.
Samori Ture is a deeply religious Muslim of the Maliki jurisprudence of Sunni Islam.
Ture resists French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898.
Samori Ture is the great-grandfather of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré.
