Samori Ture

Samori Ture was a West African military and political leader who founded the Wassoulou Empire and resisted French colonial expansion in the late nineteenth century.

Dyula: Dyula are Mande-speaking Muslim communities historically associated with long-distance trade across West Africa. Dyula merchants and Islamic networks formed part of the commercial world in which Ture built power.
Wassoulou Empire: The Wassoulou Empire was a nineteenth-century West African state founded by Samori Ture. It was the political structure Ture assembled to govern and defend his expanding territories.
Karamoko Ture: Karamoko Ture was Samori Ture’s son and a commander in the Wassoulou Empire. He continued resistance after his father’s capture and deportation.
French conquest of West Africa: French conquest of West Africa was the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century expansion of French colonial rule across the region. Ture’s wars were a major episode in France’s drive to establish colonial control.
Battle of Woyowayanko: The Battle of Woyowayanko was an 1882 clash between Samori Ture’s forces and the French near Bamako. Ture’s army checked a French advance in one of his early major encounters with France.
Bamana Empire: The Bamana Empire was a nineteenth-century state centered on Segu in the middle Niger region. Its decline opened political space for Ture’s expansion in the Upper Niger region.
Sofa (soldier): Sofa were infantry soldiers in the military forces of several nineteenth-century West African states. Ture relied on sofa forces alongside cavalry to fight and hold territory.
Sofa Kamissoko: Sofa Kamissoko was a military commander associated with Samori Ture’s forces. His career illustrates the commanders through whom Ture organized military resistance.
French Sudan: French Sudan was a French colonial territory in West Africa, largely within present-day Mali. The French campaigns against Ture advanced colonial control in the region.
Treaty of Bissandugu: The Treaty of Bissandugu was an 1886 agreement between Samori Ture and France. The treaty temporarily defined relations between Ture’s state and French authorities.

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