YOUTUBE Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary, Why was He Killed? AdminAugust 26, 20230168 views In the dusty heart of Burkina Faso, where the sun sears the barren earth and the wind whispers secrets of a turbulent past, a revolutionary’s voice rose, echoed, and reverberated across the African plains.. This revolutionary was none other than Thomas Sankara, the late former president of Burkina Faso. Sankara rose to power in 1983, and he immediately became a committed, self-sacrificing rebel who, during his four years as leader of a small, impoverished nation, sought to improve the lives of ordinary people while at the same time projecting the country onto the international stage… *********************************************************** Sources: Thomas Sankara, An African Revolutionary, By Ernest Harsch The Warrior of Corruption and Colonialism: The Thomas Sankara Model 1949-1987, Aftikar Mhussan Salh A Political Biography of Thomas Sankara, Amber Murrey African contemporary records (annual survey and documents 1986-1987)- Collins Legum A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THOMAS ISIDORE NOEL SANKARA’S SERVANT LEADERSHIP STYLE OF GOVERNMENT IN BURKINA-FASO, Shaka Yesufu https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58842427 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Sankara The Chronology of Military Coup d’états and Regimes in Burkina Faso: 1980-2015- Abdoulie Sawo https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/sankara-thomas-1949-1987 The Legacies of Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary Experience in Retrospect, Ernest Harsch https://africasacountry.com/2016/10/thomas-sankara-the-upright-man https://www.thecollector.com/thomas-sankara-burkina-faso-revolutionary/ Thomas Sankara: Biography, Presidency, Accomplishments, & Assassination Captain Thomas Sankara: The Upright Revolutionary Understanding Geopolitics from a Historical Perspective: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987, by Vincent Gutierrez ******************************************************************** Music: Heartbreaking Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ John Stockton Slow Drag by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/uvp/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Mercy by Kai Engel Harbor by Kai Engel Realness by Kai Engel Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100161 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Kai Engel – Lesicia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Kai Engel – Norctune, CC BY-SA 4.0 Night Music – Kevin MacLeod #Sankara #BurkinaFaso source