35 years after his assassination, Thomas Sankara still inspires liberation in Africa

Thirty-five years ago this month, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries was murdered by former comrades. “Africa’s Che Guevara,” as he was known, was shot down in a coup d’etat by soldiers who were rebelling against his socialist transformation of Burkina Faso, a landlocked and poor rem...

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