Analysis - "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery," Sékou Touré famously told Guinea's colonial masters. But under his own long rule many liberties were withheld.

Forty years after his death, Ahmed Sékou Touré, the father of Guinea's independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, Sékou Touré could be ...

GUINEA Touré on Tour As their President traveled in high style through foreign lands last week, thousands of Guineans back home crowded excitedly around big bulletin boards plastered with ...

When Sékou Touré of Guinea in 1958 visited his brother African leader, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, ... GUINEA: Toure’s Troubles. 3 minute read. TIME. March 14, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-5.

Ever since I was a young girl, a young girl from Ghana, I'd heard about Guinea. Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, and Guinea's founding father, Ahmed Sekou Toure, were passionate pan ...

On October 2, 1958, Ahmed Sekou Toure declares independence, a few days after a referendum rejected membership in a Franco-African community proposed by then French leader Charles de Gaulle. Sekou ...

Guinea has had only two presidents since gaining its independence from France in 1958. ... Sekou Toure. Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. Conte ...

Forty years after his death, Ahmed Sékou Touré, the father of Guinea's independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, Sékou Touré could be ...