Name: Kérouané Prefecture
Address: Kérouané Prefecture, West Africa & Sahel

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Samori Ture

Founder of the Wassoulou Empire in West Africa (c. 1830–1900) and its ruler with the title Almamy (imam). He embraced Islam as a young man, built a state spanning parts of present-day Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire, proclaimed Islam its state religion in 1884 and enforced its practice, and resisted French colonial expansion for sixteen years until his capture in 1898; he died in exile in Gabon in 1900.

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