Talk:Conakry

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[edit] The Brittish didn't "found" this city

It was already there. Can we change this? Western scholarship cities such as Dakar, Banjul (Bathhurst), Abidjan, Conakry and others were assumed to be creations of western colonizers. However, though they were transformed in both negative and positive ways by colonization, these cities predate colonization as did many of the economic and institutional patters found in Africa.

See: The History of African Cities South of the Sahara by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch P. 329

futurebird (talk) 15:21, 17 November 2007 (UTC)