Poverty in Freedom — Sékou Touré and Guinea's Lone "No" Vote

In 1958, every French African territory except one voted to keep ties with France. Guinea's Sékou Touré chose immediate, unsupported independence instead — France punitively stripped the country of virtually all administrative infrastructure on the way out. This 15-18 minute read holds his defiance and his later government's serious, well-documented human rights abuses in the same honest frame, without softening either.