In 1987, Thomas Sankara called for a united front against debt. His struggle remains as urgent today as it was then. At the 1987 summit of the Organization of African Unity, Thomas Sankara warned that he would not live to attend another meeting if Burkina Faso were alone in resisting its debt obligations. A few […]
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SUNDAY SCREENING: Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man
September 11th, 2017 Awake Goy
This week’s documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. The story of Thomas Sankara is unknown to many in the west. He was a visionary and a revolutionary – a charismatic army captain who came to power in a popular coup in Burkina Faso in 1983. Regarded as Africa’s ‘Che,’ his brief four-year […]
Thomas Sankara: Africa’s Unsung Inspiration
September 5th, 2017 Awake Goy
P.D. Lawton21st Century Wire Thomas Sankara, a man in his early thirties transformed the world’s poorest country at that time, Upper Volta, into a self-sufficient modern thinking nation in just four years. This African miracle nation remains little known about in the West because its story contradicts every negative image that has ever been painted of […]