Attempted suicide in captivity by Samori Toure, c. 1830 – 1900; a Guinean Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day South-eastern Guinea. Toure resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898. Ture died in captivity on June 2, 1900, following a bout of pneumonia. His tomb is at the Camayanne Mausoleum, within the gardens of Conakry Grand Mosque.

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Attempted suicide in captivity by Samori Toure, c. 1830 – 1900; a Guinean Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day South-eastern Guinea. Toure resisted French colonial rule in West Africa from 1882 until his capture in 1898. Ture died in captivity on June 2, 1900, following a bout of pneumonia. His tomb is at the Camayanne Mausoleum, within the gardens of Conakry Grand Mosque.

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