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Could an African State Manufacture Its Own Firearms to Resist France? - Samori Touré and the Moving Empire of West Africa | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the late nineteenth century, the upper Niger region of West Africa was not a quiet backwater waiting for European arrival. It was a landscape of ambitious state-builders, trade networks, and military innovation. Among them was a Dyula trader named Samori Touré, who constructed one of the most formidable African states of the era and forced France to fight a war far longer and more costly than its planners anticipated. This episode explores how he built the Wassoulou Empire, organized a…
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