Sékou Touré

Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ߛߋߞߎ߬ ߕߎ߬ߙߋ; 9 January 1922 – 26 March 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. He died in the United States in 1984.

Quotes

• We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.
  • to French President Charles de Gaulle in 1958, rejecting continued French colonial control in favor of immediate independence

• Every free and sovereign people finds itself placed in conditions more favourable to the expression of its cultural values than a colonized country...
• The political leader who truly remains the authentic expression of his people is the one whose thought... are in perfect harmony with the characteristics of his people

• The revolution is not a matter of a single day, nor is it the task of one man; it is a permanent creation

• "And if you fashion it [the revolution] with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves

• Science has no homeland, but the scientist has one, and it is to that homeland that he must dedicate his knowledge.

External Links

• Media related to Sékou Touré on Wikimedia Commons