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Thomas Sankara’s Lost Legacy

Posted: 05 Dec 2021 09:01 PM PST

Thirty-four years ago, Burkina Faso's president, Thomas Sankara, was murdered. Only now are his alleged assassins on trial. Had he survived, the arid, landlocked country of more than 20 million people might well have taken a far different path to development.Sankara—a charismatic reformer and a Marxist authoritarian (often referred to as Africa's Che Guevara) gave […] Related posts: Climate Crisis Exacerbates Military Legacy Contamination To Fight Climate Change and Insecurity in West...

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