Alfa Yaya from Labé

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Alfa Yaya from Labé
Empires of the Fulani Jihad in West Africa around 1830

Alfa Yaya von Labé or Alfa Yaya Diallo (* 1830 ; † October 10, 1912 in Port-Étienne - today Nouadhibou , Mauritania ) is a national hero of Guinea who lived in the 19th century in the province of Labé of the empire of Fouta Djallon in what is now Guinea prevailed.

In 1867/68 he led the army of the Islamic Fulbe as part of the jihad of the Fulbe , which had seized large parts of West Africa, against the non-Islamic empire of Kaabu and finally defeated the troops of the empire of Kaabu in the battle of Kansala in 1868. The former Kaabu was then divided into two provinces, Kaabu and Fulladu , both of which remained tributary to the kingdom of Fouta Djallon . This empire extended over the eponymous region of today's Fouta Djallon and beyond.

At the beginning of his rule, Alfa Yaya pursued a pro-French policy with the aim of achieving the independence of Labé from the Almamy (ruler) of Fouta Djallon. On February 10, 1897, he signed a kind of standstill agreement with the French in which they recognized him in return as permanent ruler and "King of Labé, Kadé and N'Gabou". Later he conquered other areas in Fouta Djallon .

Alfa Yaya's relations with France deteriorated from 1904 when France ceded part of its sphere of influence to the Portuguese . A planned revolt by Alfa Yaya was betrayed and he was deported to Dahomey , today's Benin , in 1905 . After his release in 1910 he took up the fight again, was arrested in 1911 and this time deported to Port Etienne in Mauritania , where he died in 1912. Guinea's founder-president Sekou Touré styled him, regardless of his initial collaboration with the French, after Guinea's independence as a national hero of resistance against the former colonial power.

In 1969 his remains were transferred to Guinea at the same time as those of another Guinean national hero, Samory Tourés . Alfa Yaya von Labé is named after Alfa Yaya von Labé, the largest barracks in Guinea in the capital Conakry , the Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo , which gained inglorious fame as the starting point of a massacre in Guinea's recent history . The national anthem of Guinea ( Liberté ) and the 2- Sylis coin from 1971 are also dedicated to Alfa Yaya.

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