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Abdoulaye Touré (politician)
Abdoulaye Touré (c. 1920 – July 1985) was a politician in the first Guinean republic. He was arrested after a coup in April 1984, and was executed in July 1985. Early life Abdoulaye Touré was born in Kankan on December 16 around 1923, the grandson of Samori Touré + Masséré Cissé (c. 1830 - 1900), the founder of the Wassoulou Empire. He was trained as a physician (William Ponty), serving in E.F.A. Bangui in Kankan and Siguiri in the 1950s. Career He became an active member of the Democratic Party of Guinea, and was Governor in Boffa, NZerekore before ambassador to Mali in 1962, Algeria in 1968. He became Guinea's ambassador to the United Nations in 1970, succeeding Achkar Marof, who had been arrested the year before. On 19 June 1972 he was appointed a Central committee member and Minister of External Trade. On 1 June 1979 he became Minister of External Affairs. After the coup that followed the death of Sekou Toure, on 3 April 1984 he was arrested. He was executed in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kankan
Kankan ( Mandingo: Kánkàn; N’ko: ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫) is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 198,013 people as of 2020. The city is located in eastern Guinea about east of the national capital Conakry. The city is the capital and largest town of the Kankan Prefecture and of the Kankan Region with its population being largely from the Mandinka ethnic group. Etymology Kankan had different names before being dubbed Kankan during Arafan Kabine's rule as patriarch, which means 'the defenses' (or 'God protect our city from all the attacks'), due to successives attacks by the unfaithful people. But there are other terms which says that during the Kaba's negotiation of the place from Conde's, they were informed to install where the people made the ''Kankan'' (A fixed wood that Mandes often used as a door), and there were no other human settlement between Makonon and Diankana (30 km) during this moment. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
