4.6.3. SAMORY'S LEGEND SKIPS THE RAIDED

AS AN OPPONENT OF COLONIAL CONQUEST SAMORY IS RENOWNED

His resistance makes the French glorious and Africans heroic.

Capture of Samory by lieutenant Jacquin

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Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jean-Jacques David, 1801 / zoom

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The legend

The Intrepid Warrior who Defied French Colonisation / video: zoom (in French)

-- By Alpha Blondy, 1984; YouTube, 2013

Bori, bori Samory

Run, run Samory

Toubabouhou bikôh oko obi faga

The whites are coming, they have sworn to kill you

 

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But Senufos recall him with terror.

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After his passage on September 26, 1898. 

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Samory sent his son and heir to France for a first-hand view of the enemy. When on his return he said that defeating the French would be impossible, Samory had him starved to death.

 Prisoner, 1898

The real figure: cruelty, sadness and dignity.

And slave raider.

Ask the Senufo.

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Nationalist history hides modern issues