HST 041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Royal West African Frontier Force, Samori Ture, Different Class
4 Oct 2016
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Young men can"t be adults until you get married. 1870"s-1890"s african options narrow in terms of the actions they can take against europeans. A revolution of muslim traders who were set out of power who organized armies and sought to overthrow non-muslim states. Brings men together and supplies them with guns. By the early 1880"s they meet the french. He realizes that he can"t defeat the french. Tells the generals to back off, let the french do their thing and they"ll expand east, west and south. In 1883, the french move to occupy bomako, which samori also wants. 1885, the french try to take over samori"s bure, which is filled with gold. Then he turns to more internal wars vs african enemies. Samori is running out of choices, accommodation to resistance to accommodation to resistance again. He keeps losing and retreats to his state.
