Sekou Toure, longtime ruler of the African nation of Guinea, was born Ahmad Sekou Toure in Faranah, Guinea (which, at the time, was a colony called French Guinea) on 9 January 1922. A member of the Mandinka tribe, Toure came from a line of warriors, and in fact his great-grandfather Samory Toure was a national … Continue reading Ahmed Sekou Toure Anti-colonialist leader