The first President of Guinea was Ahmed Sékou Touré, who served from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984. He was born on January 9, 1922, in Faranah, French Guinea, and was a member of the Malinke ethnic group, the largest in Guinea. Touré’s father was a trader and his mother a farmer. He attended Koranic school and later studied at the École Normale William Ponty in Senegal. After...
Pioneering the Presidency: Guinea’s First Presidential Leader
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