Sékou

/ SEH-koo /
Gender
Boy
Origin
🇬🇳 Guinea
Religion
Islam
First Seen
Trait
Leader

Meaning & Etymology

Learned one / scholar (from the Arabic shaykh).

Borne by Sékou Touré, who led Guinea to independence from France in 1958.

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Ahmed Sékou Touré

Politics · Guinea · b. 1922

First President of Guinea and a Pan-African independence leader.

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