Translators' introduction The original French text, available here, is a transcription of an oral interview, and it is clear that the person doing the transcription was unsure of a few of the formulations. We therefore did our best to render the text as coherent as...
Burkina Faso
Thomas Sankara on the founding of the Black Institute
Editorial introduction This is the first English translation of this speech—titled “Blacks must take responsibility for their own history and contribute to universal civilization"—and the second installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work...
Thomas Sankara: Leadership and action that inspires 71 years later
Liberation Audio · Thomas Sankara: Leadership and action that inspires 71 years later Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was born December 21, 1949 in Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), which, at the time, was a West African French colony. Sankara, a fierce enemy of the...