The Empire That Moved — Samori Touré and Nearly Two Decades of Resistance

Samori Touré resisted French colonial expansion for close to 20 years — not by defending fixed territory to the death, but by relocating his entire empire hundreds of miles east, repeatedly, while manufacturing his own firearms to avoid dependency on the powers he was fighting. A 15-18 minute read about treating survival as separable from any single piece of land.