Sankara’s stance on sovereignty still resonates today. Here’s why …
'Debt is neo-colonialism, in which colonisers transformed themselves into 'technical assistance'. We should say 'technical assassins'
The unfolding crisis in Greece has highlighted the extent...
Burkina Faso: 25 Years On – the Mixed Legacy of Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara,...
By Peter Dörrie, 15 October 2012
After four years of Sankara's socialist policies, Burkina Faso achieved near food self-sufficiency. Then his best friend killed him...
“Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara 20 years later: a tribute to integrity” by Demba Moussa...
Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara 20 years later: a tribute to integrity
Demba Moussa Dembélé (translation Gwendolyn Schulman)
Summary & Comment: Thomas Sankara understood before others that...
Review of “A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas...
Sankara
By Gabriel Kuhn
This is a review of A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara, edited by Amber Murrey...
Remembering Thomas Sankara, the EFF’s muse
By Rebecca Davis
Published the 05 Nov 2013 on http://www.dailymaverick.co.za
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters have invoked the legacy of former Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara...
“Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa” – Thomas Sankara by Paula Akugizibwe
City Life - Monday, July 23
Thomas Sankara, former leader of Burkina Faso, was the apparent opposite of everything we are often told...
“Remembering Thomas Sankara on the 30th Anniversary of His Assassination” video from Amber Murrey
His discussion of Thomas Sankara's politics and legacy focuses on his militant activism, commitments to decolonization and anti-imperialism, and politics-by-example. Look for forthcoming edited...
Book Review: When Everything Has Fallen by Nathalia Zongo
By EMM
http://www.blogcritics.org
On October 15, 1987 a military coup d'état took place in Burkina Faso, and the president Thomas Sankara was assassinated. Sankara himself had...
“The routes and possibilities of a South – South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil”...
The routes and possibilities of a South - South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil
Jacques Depelchin (2007-12-11)
We publish this article found in the very rich...
Opening of historical trial in Ouagadougou. Who murdered Thomas Sankara ?
On October 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara, leader of Burkina Faso and figure of Pan-Africanism, was assassinated during a coup d'etat. The circumstances of this...
