Liberation School introduction: This interview by journalists from the monthly Afrique Asie newspaper was conducted roughly ten months after Thomas Sankara, the leader of a progressive and socialist faction within the military, led a revolution in Upper Volta. The...
Liberation School introduction This interview with Thomas Sankara took place mere days after the success of the Burkinabé revolution of August 4, 1983, although the precise date of the interview is unknown. Despite Sankara’s stature within the previous government, a...
Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of an interview with Thomas Sankara by Ivoire Dimanche, initially released online in French under the title "The Burkinabè Revolution Is Not the Copy of Any Other Revolution." Published in the...
Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of an interview with Thomas Sankara, originally published here in French under the title, “We vote for Le Pen too much in Ouagadougou.” The interview took place on August 5, 1985 and was first...
Liberation School 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...
Liberation School 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...
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...