Word: kou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kou Tour...
...independence from France in 1958, President Charles de Gaulle proposed that it join in a Franco-African community that was to maintain political and economic ties to France. The leaders of all twelve other former French colonies in Africa decided to participate, but not intense, eloquent Ahmed Sékou Touré. Said he to De Gaulle: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery...
...worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France's Le Monde: "If ever there was a revolution that went astray in Africa, it was the one that Sékou Touré promised to his people 26 years...
DIED. Ahmed Sékou Touré, 62, President of Guinea; during emergency heart surgery; in Cleveland (see WORLD...