This volume in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series is the first biography in English of Sankara, who ruled Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, though it is not an ideal introduction to his life.
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary By Ernest Harsch Ohio University Press, 2014 163 pages, $18.56. A popular uprising in 1983 in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), a small and poor land-locked ...
Burkina Faso former President Blaise Compaoré don receive life sentence in im absence for di role wey im play for di assassination of revolutionary predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Dem gun down Sankara, ...
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 ...
Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kwame Nkrumah—four towering figures of Pan-Africanism whose lives were cut short by violence and betrayal, yet whose dreams of a united, ...
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The reburial of the charismatic leader has taken place 35 years after his killing Burkina Faso's most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta - ...
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, ...
Burkina Faso's most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta - despite his widow and children boycotting the funeral. Sankara was laid to rest at the ...
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