West Africa
Burkina Faso
Contemporary
English
Speech
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.
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Sankara was assassinated in 1987 with French complicity; he remains the most inspiring African revolutionary leader of the 20th century
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editorial-summarynot primary textCollected 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. Sankara was assassinated in 1987 with French complicity; he remains the most inspiring African revolutionary leader of the 20th century
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