Necklaces of Thomas Sankara and Ibrahim Traoré that are sold in front of the Thomas Sankara memorial in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (Photos by Carmen Yasmine Abd Ali/For The Washington Post) The Post ...
Kwela Books has just published a new book on the late president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, who is popular referred to as Africa's Che Guevara. When Thomas Sankara gained power in Burkina Faso in ...
The Africa Report: Burkina Faso: The defence has the floor in the Thomas Sankara trial
Burkina Faso: The defence has the floor in the Thomas Sankara trial
OUAGADOUGOU, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The exhumed remains of Burkina Faso's beloved ex-president Thomas Sankara, whose 1987 murder shocked the West African nation, were laid to rest at a ceremony in the ...
OUAGADOUGOU – The late Burkina Faso revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara's body, and those of the 12 ...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Nearly 30 years after President Thomas Sankara was killed in a coup as he strived to make his West African country an egalitarian one, his purported grave is being dug ...
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré designed the memorial in Ouagadougou in tribute to Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader. The recently opened mausoleum of the father of ...
Jacobin on MSN: Ibrahim Traoré would like to be Thomas Sankara’s heir
The trial of Thomas Sankara’s alleged killers resumed on 22 March, three weeks after it had been suspended and in an almost empty courtroom. The judges sat before a sparse audience, instead of the ...