Thomas Sankara: How the Leader of a Small African Country Left Such a Large...
Ernest Hash
Long revered by radical youths and activists across Africa, Thomas Sankara finally also achieved a measure of government recognition in his country, Burkina...
Burkina Faso: Who really killed Thomas Sankara?
Burkina Faso: Who really killed Thomas Sankara?
Carina Ray
15 January 2008
In January 2008, after much delay, the trial of former Liberian president, Charles Ghankay Taylor,...
Thomas Sankara and the new Africa renaissance
Agun Mod
2013-10-24 http://www.pambazuka.org/en/issue/651
Like Nkrumah of Ghana and Nyerere of Tanzania, Sankara sought to restore dignity and honour to his country and to imbue the...
A Grisly Assassination That Will Not Stay Buried
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: Monday, March 10, 1997
Almost every day, at least a handful of visitors still come to pay their...
Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara – Chronicle of an Organised Tragedy – by Cheriff M....
Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara - Chronicle of an Organised Tragedy - by Cheriff M. Sy
It is 20 years since a great combatant for African...
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...
Thomas Sankara and the Black Spring in Burkina Faso
Blaise Compaoré, the president of Burkina Faso who was forced to resign by mass protests on October 31, was more than simply a dictator...
A Sankarist Response to Homophobia
Amber Murrey
Published in Pambazuka News 651 : SPECIAL ISSUE : Thomas Sankara and inventing Africa’s future : 26 years later 2013-10-25 http://www.pambazuka.org/en/issue/651
The political ideology...
Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe
Nick Dearden
On the 25th anniversary of Sankara's assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and...
Revisiting Thomas Sankara, 26 years later
Ama Biney
Published in Pambazuka News 651 : SPECIAL ISSUE : Thomas Sankara and inventing Africa’s future : 26 years later 2013-10-24
Twenty-six years after the...
