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Indispensable reading on Sankara’s life and politics is to be found in Brian J. Peterson’s well-researched Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa (Indiana University Press, 2021).
CAPTAIN Thomas Sankara was a hand­some, unpretentious young man who wanted to give his country dignity and hope. He changed its name from the geographical banality of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso ...
Thomas Sankara, who ruled Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, was one of the most riveting leaders of the last half-century. A pan-Africanist, Marxist and gifted orator, he came to power following a ...
READ MORE Thomas Sankara: last moments, last witnesses, last secrets… Today, it is impossible to separate the legend from the facts, as every aspiring revolutionary and publicity-hungry ...
The trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso's former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, 34 years after he was gunned down in one of the most infamous ...
The trial of 14 people accused of plotting to assassinate Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, more than 30 years after he was gunned down in one of the most ...
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (1949-1987) was assassinated 30 years ago, on 15 October 1987. He was one of the most confident and outspoken anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th century.
Burkina Faso on Monday began the exhumation of a grave thought to hold the remains of its former president Thomas Sankara. In this photo, Sankara's grave is seen in Ouagadougou on Nov. 25, 2014.
– Thomas Sankara (speech at UN General Assembly 1984) The renowned revolutionary and anti-imperialist leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on October 15, 1987, at the age of 37.