Rwanda: Sankara Lives On in His Ideas

By Pan Butamire, 18 October 2013 The commemoration of Sankara's death seems to have elicited little interest in Africa, if one is to go by...

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...

The Heirs of Thomas Sankara’s Revolution

February 28, 2014 AFRICANGLOBE – It is very vital to look at the role that we Africans play in our own liberation, and the role...

Why true African leaders never stand a chance

Published: 08 October, 2011 Lode Vanoost ­An obstinate myth that refuses to die: Africa is incapable of producing responsible leadership. Really? No African country has experienced...

Sankara, Amnesty, Justice and the Niger Delta’s Destiny

Dear Peoples of the Niger Delta, “We must dare to invent the future…while revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas” -Thomas Sankara When...

An Open Letter to the Spirit of a Rebellious Leader

by ADAM CHIMIENTI Dreaming of a better world... http://www.counterpunch.org Weekend Edition Nov 30-Dec 02, 2012 Dear President Sankara, It was 25 years ago this autumn...

Sankara: Our own Che-December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987

June 5, 2012 By Olajide Jatto It’s no secret to say the word ‘hero’ is very much over used in the society we live in...

“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...

More young people in SA should be inspired by Sankara

Andile Mngxitama 18 oct. 2011 ON OCTOBER 15 1987 Thomas Sankara and his comrades were assassinated. That day the black world...

Parallelisms: Sankara, the hero who defied his creditors

by Leonidas Oikonomakis on February 16, 2012 To Eduardo Galeano It happened in 1987. The Organization of African Unity assembled in Addis Abbeba, Ethiopia, in the last...