Ahmed Sékou Touré

But his great-grandson redeemed the name of Touré by becoming the first president of Guinea in 1958.

That's right, Ahmed Sekou Touré.

Now, the French were brutal colonizers, and they instituted a seven-year period of what they called pacification, during which they routed out any resistors or suspected resistors, killed them, destroyed their crops and their homes.

Now, forced labor under the Indigena system extracted African bodies to build roads, to build railways, just to build up the colonial infrastructure with little or no pay and segregation laws.