The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guinea:
Guinea –
country located in
West Africa, that was formerly known as
French Guinea.[1] Guinea's territory has a curved shape, with its base at the
Atlantic Ocean, inland to the east, and turning south. The base borders
Guinea-Bissau and
Senegal to the north, and
Mali to the north and north-east; the inland part borders
Côte d'Ivoire to the south-east,
Liberia to the south, and
Sierra Leone to the west of the southern tip. Its water sources include the
Niger,
Senegal, and
Gambia rivers. Guinea is sometimes called Guinea-Conakry (Conakry being its capital) to differentiate it from the neighboring
Guinea-Bissau (whose capital is
Bissau).
Cabinet of the First Republic of Guinea – governing body of Guinea from independence on 28 September 1958 until the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré on 26 March 1984, followed by a bloodless coup by Colonel Lansana Conté on 5 April 1984.
Sahelian kingdoms – the area which is now Guinea lay on the fringes of these Kingdoms
Imamate of Futa Jallon – West African theocratic state based in the Futa Jallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded around 1727 by a Fulani jihad and became part of the French colonial empire in 1896.
Wassoulou Empire – short-lived (1878–1898) empire of West Africa built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Touré and destroyed by the French colonial army.
Anglo-French Convention of 1882 – confirmed the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone around Conakry and Freetown.
Cabinet of the First Republic of Guinea – governing body of Guinea from independence on 28 September 1958 until the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré on 26 March 1984, followed by a bloodless coup by Colonel Lansana Conté on 5 April 1984.
Lansana Conté – took over in a bloodless coup, and ruled as president from 1984 to 2008