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...
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,...
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 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...
Thomas Sankara’s speaches (video)
It’s also well worth your time watching Sankara’s famous speech “Against Debt”:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzoToJEnu8?fs=1&hl=fr_FR&w=480&h=385]
Finally, here’s his unforgettable speech in Harlem, New York:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulD0_JfdEUc?fs=1&hl=fr_FR&w=480&h=385]
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...
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 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...
Thomas Sankara – Never Think Less of Yourself …
Sankaraship, a term coined by Joagni Pare, is all about the life and leadership principles practiced by Thomas Sankara — the young, charismatic, and Pan-African leader who...
