On the anniversary of Thomas Sankara coming to power in Burkina Faso, Jonis Ghedi Alasow reflects on how his legacy lives on in new Sahelian revolutions todayToday, August 4, marks 42 years since ...

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 ...

On the first anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power, Captain Thomas Sankara rejected the colonial name of his country — Upper Volta — and by presidential mandate declared the country ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

– 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.