The revolution cannot triumph without the emancipation of women March 8, 1987

The English translation of the speech is taken from the book "Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle" with the first edition published with...
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Thomas Sankara meets George Faisans

A few weeks ago, I posted some thoughts and photos from the New Afrika Shrine nightclub in Lagos. One of those pictures featured...

THE UPRIGHT MAN: 10 LESSONS FROM THOMAS SANKARA

Where did all the genuine African revolutionaries go? They were either assassinated; Patrice Lumumba, Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel, Amilcar Cabral, Steve Biko, John Garang,...

Thomas Sankara’s speaches (video)

It’s also well worth your time watching Sankara’s famous speech “Against Debt”: http://www.youtube.com/v/DfzoToJEnu8?fs=1&hl=fr_FR Finally, here’s his unforgettable speech in Harlem, New York: http://www.youtube.com/v/ulD0_JfdEUc?fs=1&hl=fr_FR
Visite du président Thomas Sankara en Union soviétique

The Distinguished Guest (Thomas Sankara) from Burkina Faso in the USSR. (1986)

https://www.net-film.ru/film-9298/ Producer CSDF (RCSDF) Director: Artseulov O. Operators: Gorbatskiy V., Lovkov V. Anouncers: Zozulin V. Text writers: Korneshov L. Annotation In the Soviet Union came Chairman of the National Council of...

The Political Orientation Speech Thomas Sankara,

The Speech on Political Orientation (Discours d'Orientation politique or DOP), as the name makes clear, is the theoretical foundation of the revolution. It...

The speech he would have given on October 15, 1987

This speech was translated from French for Pambazuka News by Jeff Wilson. INTRODUCTION The speech was found by the journalist Denis de Montgolfier (see the summary...

National Anthem

Against the humiliating bondage of a thousand years Rapacity came from afar to subjugate them for a hundred years. Against the cynical malice in the shape Of...
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Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”

Editorial Introduction This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by...