Overview
Region
West Africa
Burkina Faso
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Speech
About This Work
Collected speeches of Thomas Sankara, who renamed Upper Volta as Burkina Faso and led an extraordinary revolutionary government from 1983-1987. On women's liberation, imperialism, debt, and African dignity.
Literary Significance
Sankara was assassinated in 1987 with French complicity; he remains the most inspiring African revolutionary leader of the 20th century