The reburial of the charismatic leader has taken place 35 years after his killing Burkina Faso's most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta - ...
CAPTAIN Thomas Sankara was a handsome, unpretentious young man who wanted to give his country dignity and hope. He changed its name from the geographical banality of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ...
On the first anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power, Captain Thomas Sankara rejected the colonial name of his country — Upper Volta — and by presidential mandate declared the country ...
One picture brings it all back home to me again: Me, an 11-year-old London school pupil, gazing up smiling into the eyes of Thomas Sankara, then president of Burkina Faso. The picture is too dark; it ...
Burkina Faso's most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta - despite his widow and children boycotting the funeral. Sankara was laid to rest at the ...
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