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We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery.

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Culture is a more effective weapon than guns for the purpose of domination. For it was scientific, technical and technological culture which produced the guns. The prerequisite of any domination, exploitation and oppression is the denial to the oppressed man or people of his or their human attributes and therefore, in the first instance, cultural activities.

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Ahmed Sékou Touré

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Born: January 9, 1922

Died: March 26, 1984 (aged 62)

Bio: Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader who was elected as the first President of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France.

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