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: 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...
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...
The great Thomas Sankara was murdered on this day 27 years ago
Published on Africa is a Country (http://africasacountry.com) the October 15th, 2014
By Elliot Ross*
It is the 27th anniversary of the death of Thomas Sankara, and...
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...
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...
The family will not participate in the burial Thomas Sankara if it...
Press release
By our letter of January 27, 2023, following the various meetings initiated around the burial of the remains of President Thomas Sankara and...
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...