Features On Thomas Sankara’s birthday
Aziz Salmone Fall
Burkina Faso’s first president was assassinated nearly 25 years ago but the identity of his killers remains unresolved. Marking the anniversary of...
Press release : 8 000 signatures to demand Justice for Thomas Sankara, Justice for...
President Thomas Sankara would have been 62 years old if he hadn’t been assassinated by the henchmen of Blaise Compaoré, the current president of...
Calls for France to open its archives for evidence of involvement of the French...
OUAGADOUGOU (IPS julu the 22d ) – Opposition members of parliament in Burkina Faso have called on France to open its archives to look...
“24 years since the assassination of Sankara” from Guy Marius Sagna
On Friday, October 28th, 2011
Guy Marius Sagna
It is almost a quarter of a century since Thomas Sankara disappeared. In the pantheon of the brave...
Thomas Sankara: A selfless and incorruptible leader with a proud legacy
With all these disturbing newspaper reports regarding the self-enrichment of government ministers relentlessly pursuing luxurious lifestyles at the expense of the tax-paying electorate, one...
violation of the grave of late Thomas Sankara : STATEMENT OF PAN-AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS ...
In relation to the violation of the grave of late Thomas Sankara on
July 28, 2011, the illustrious former Pan-African President of Burkina
Faso.
The Organizations involved...
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...
Ken and Sankara: Africa should demonstrate its Innocence
This is the last extract from the research, “UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: My Hands Are Clean”, as it relates to the role of local Africans...
African Revolutionaries: remembering Maurice Bishop and Thomas Sankara
This week marks the anniversary of the assassinations of two black revolutionaries, Maurice Bishop on 19 October 1983 and Thomas Sankara on 15 October...
Charles Taylor Trial ended, but Burkina Faso and Libya incriminated
By Ramata Soré
On March 9 and 11, in Leidschendam near The Hague (Netherlands), the trial against Charles Taylor came to close. Taylor has been...