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Foamansa Matturi

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Foamansa Matturi (1855–1936) was a Sierra Leonean ruler who led his fellow Kono people in fighting abilities and a diplomacy that helped bring stability to Kono District, a region that was continually the target of invasions from both its Sierra Leonean neighbours and Samori Toure's Mandinka warriors from French Guinea (now Guinea). [1]

18 relations: Diplomacy, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, Freetown, French Guinea, Guinea, Kono District, Kono people, Kuranko people, Mandinka people, Mende people, Merchant, Ndawa, Nyagua, Paramount chief, Samori Ture, Sierra Leone, United Kingdom, Warrior.

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states.

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Eastern Province, Sierra Leone

The Eastern Province is one of the three provinces of Sierra Leone.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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French Guinea

French Guinea (Guinée française) was a French colonial possession in West Africa.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Kono District

Kono District is a diamond-rich district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.

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Kono people

The Kono people (pronounced koh noh) are a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone at about 7.6% of the country's total population.

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Kuranko people

The Kuranko, also known as the Koranko, or even as Karanko are an ethnic group living in Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka (also known as Mandenka, Mandinko, Mandingo, Manding or Malinke) are an African ethnic group with an estimated global population of 11 million (the other three largest ethnic groups in Africa being the unrelated Fula, Hausa and Songhai peoples).

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Mende people

The Mende people (also spelled Mendi) are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, have roughly the same population.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

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Ndawa

Ndawa or Dawa (c. 1850 – 1888) was an important war chief in the Mendeland region, in present-day Sierra Leone, in the 19th century.

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Nyagua

Nyagua was a Mende chief from Sierra Leone.

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Paramount chief

A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system.

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Samori Ture

Samori Ture (c. 1830 – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Guinean Muslim cleric, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day north and south-eastern Guinea and included part of north-eastern Sierra Leone, part of Mali, part of northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Warrior

A warrior is a person specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior class or caste.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foamansa_Matturi

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