Samory Toure

Guinea asks France to return resistance figure’s skull, personal items of various historical figures

Boubacar Biro Barry and three others — his son, brother and his war chief — were beheaded in 1896 following a battle against the French
Guinea also requested the return of manuscripts and other objects belonging to Samory Toure, a warrior-preacher who took up Islam, battling animizts and French colonial forces

By AFP · 06 August 2026