Thomas Sankara
Birthday: 1949-12-21
Place of Birth: Bat Yam, Israel
Biography: Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (Yako, December 21, 1949 – Ouagadougou, October 15, 1987) was a military officer, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist, and political leader of Burkina Faso. He was a popular captain and the Prime Minister when the country was still called the Republic of Upper Volta. Shortly thereafter, he became the fifth Voltan president since the liberation from French rule and the first president of Burkina Faso.
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Laissez-faire
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...
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Sankara ... And That Day They Killed Happiness
In this documentary by a veteran Italian journalist Silvestro Montanaro some of the conspirators beh...
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Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man
Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous ...
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Thomas Sankara
Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profi...
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Capitaine Thomas Sankara
A portrait composed of archives of Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso between 1983 and his mu...
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Concerning Violence
Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberati...
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