What country was Ahmed Sékou Touré the first president of?
Ghana
Guinea
Mali
Nigeria
Answer
Ahmed Sékou Touré was the first president of Guinea. He was a leader of the independence movement against French rule and served as the country's first president from 1958 to 1984. He was a staunch anti-colonialist and a supporter of pan-Africanism. Touré's rule was authoritarian and repressive, and he was accused of human rights abuses. He was deposed in a coup d'état in 1984 and died in exile in 1984.
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