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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: A Leader Before His Time?

Dr Hippolyte Fofack, http://africanbusinessmagazine.com/ Thursday, 13 December 2012 Twenty-five years ago, the charismatic leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, was murdered during a coup but his...

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...

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...

Namibia : Do You Know This Man, Sankara?

Kamati Katate 26 October 2011 Let it be said, some people are ignorant. When students are ignorant, let it be said that someone, apart...

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...

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...

“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...

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...