Deadliest And Famous African Warriors

Many years ago, Africa was just a continent ruled over by some civilized minds. During the slave trade, their were those whom I dare to call leaders who fought through hard times to see that their fellow gain freedom at the cost of their very own life. Others had to make decisions which will affect millions of lives in a positive, setting greed and pride away and bearing consequences which sometimes involves being incarcerated for untold numbers of years in order for the present day Africa to become what it is – Deadliest And Famous African Warriors.

The stories of the courageous men and women, our dear warriors, will not go unnoticed for centuries to come. We will consider a few of them in this post below and also not what really made them the warriors that they are.

Bai Bureh(Sierra Leone)

With various fighters from Temne, Loko, Limba and Kissi vilages, Bai Bureh fought the British government in Sierra Leone to the extent that hundreds of the British Armies were killed despite that a princely amount of a hundred pounds as a reward for his capture was offered by Sir Frederic Cardew who was then the British Governor to Sierra Leone. The arrest order on Bai Bureh was as a result of his refusal on many occasions to pay a Hut tax imposed on laborers by the British Governor to Sierra Leone and could be pain in form of grain, labor, money or stock. The Hut tax which was introduced On January 1, 1893 would enable the British to build railways, roads, Towns, and other infrastructural amenities.

Surprisingly, Bai Bureh responded to this arrest warrant on him by offering a huge amount of five hundred pounds for the capture of Sir Frederic Cardew the Governor. Bai Bureh never wanted to work with the British who at that time were occupying the capital city of Freetown. He wanted the British to leave Sierra Leone alone and return to Britain in order for them to solve their problems by themselves. The British had earlier negotiated a peace treaty with Limba without his participation. This let to his refusal to recognize the treaty and fight against the colonial masters, a fight that led to a war that was later called the Hut Tax War of 1898.

Because the Creole people who were living in the Northern Sierra Leone were thought to be supporting the British, Bai Bureh’s fighters killed dozens of them. John “Johnny” Taylor who was a trader living in the north at that time was a famous Creole person who was killed in his own house. It was reported that Bureh’s warriors had advantages over the more sophisticated British government, completely  severing their communication line between Free town and Port Loko. By 1898 Bureh and his supporters, was already defeating the British in the Hut Tax war with hundreds of the British armies killed. Deadliest And Famous African Warriors

Samori Ture( Wassoulou Empire)

 fought extensively with the French colony during his time with an army of nothing less than 38,000 worriors. Although he lost the war at the end and the French colonialism triumphed, he had left a legacy which will always be told for centuries to come.

As a Young child, Samori Ture was a trader until he was 20 years old. He offered to serve in Sori Birama’s army in order to get his mother released after being captured in a slave raid. As a result of his exceptional skills and prowells, he attained the position of commander and in time he and his mother were released. He soon began in his jouney to build an empire with his trade skills and military brilliance combined. He started by organizing the Malinke peoples who were disorganized and became their leaders. Many Malinke chiefs supported his vision to unite them and build an empire where the people can come together.

The Mandinka Empire was created by Samori Ture between 1852 and 1882 and was further extended in 1881  to the east to as far as Sikasso in mali. To the west, he extended the empire to far Futa Djallo close to the middle of modern guinea. The extension in the north went as far as from Kankan to Bamako in Mali and uo to the present-day Sierra Leone and Liberia borders to the South.

Deadliest And Famous African Warriors