Samory Touré was born in 1830 in Miniambaladougou which is in present-day Guinea. He began his career as a trader who took advantage of trans-ocean exchanges which notably mixed gold exchanges, as well as the arms trade.
This trade has allowed him to grow rich, to build a stock of weapons for the war, the financial power to gather around him people dependent on him for their own enrichment, dedicated and very ambitious people.
In 1850, the conqueror Moriule Cisse captured Samory Touré's mother, Masorona Kamara, and Samory was forced to join him in order to obtain the release of his mother. According to legend there would have passed "7 years, 7 months and 7 days" before taking his mother and fleeing with it.This passage at Moriule Cisse allowed him to learn the handling of weapons, to show himself a good soldier and warrior, and therefore to discover that his vocation is war more than trade. We can say that this is the beginning of the rise of Samory Touré.
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