SAMORY: FRENCH AND AFRICANS OMIT THE RAIDED

AS THE MOST EFFECTIVE OPPONENT OF COLONIAL CONQUEST, HE IS LEGENDARY TO BOTH SIDES 

Most French people learn about him in school and the emphasis on his resistance implies respect. 

 Capture and prisoner (records of 1898)  

For Africans that opposition makes him a hero:

 

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

A statue: Please click and scroll down.

A  pop tune: "Run, run, Samori, the whites are coming, they have sworn to kill you." 

-- 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

No one says the Senufo of Djimini recall him with terror. 

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Traces of combat after the passage of Samory, September 26, 1898. Probably after a fight with the French, but after a slave raid would not have been different.

The French and African legends

stress resistance to colonization only,

 leaving out raided populations

and the dynamic economy captive labor brought. 

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Military conquest does not bring economic control