“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...
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...
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...
Thomas Sankara: betrayed but always remembered
No other African leader, and very few leaders in the rest of the world, brought so much radical change and were so revolutionary as...
Matyrdom of Thomas Sankara
Twenty two years ago one of the greatest leaders Africa has seen was brutally assassinated. Thomas Sankara, a charismatic military leader in the West...
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...
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...
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...
