Ahmed Sékou Touré
✓ Source-basedstablePresident of Guinea (1922-1984)
PoliticiansLived 1922 to 1984 · aged 62
Fame56.8
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Languages32
Peak1970s
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Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. He would later die in the United States in 1984.
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Samori Ture, Touré's great-grandfather was the founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic state in present-day Guinea that resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898.
Sékou Touré in 1958
Sékou Touré visiting Yugoslavia in 1961
Sékou Touré visiting Romania in 1979
Andrée Touré, his wife and the first lady of Guinea
Sékou Touré with US President John F. Kennedy in October 1962
U.S. President Jimmy Carter welcoming Sékou Touré outside the White House, Washington, D.C., 1979Awards 10
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Connected to Ahmed 6
Edgars RinkēvičsAlso won Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ángel NietoAlso won Order of Civil Merit
Ahmadou AhidjoAlso won Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Ludvík SvobodaAlso won Lenin Peace Prize
Eric WilliamsAlso won Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo
Aleksandr VasilevskyAlso won Order of the White LionAbout this person
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 1984 · aged 62
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32 languages
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