Thomas Sankara
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Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, politician and revolutionary who served as the first president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Ideologically a
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Pioneers of the Revolution
On 4 August 1983, a coup d'état was launched in the Republic of Upper Volta in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution or Burkinabé revolution. It was carried out by radical elements o
Thomas Sankara
…imprisonment. While he was under house arrest, a group of revolutionaries seized power on his behalf in a popular coup later that year. Following a takeover in a coup, at the age of 33, Sankara became the President of the Republic of Upper Volta and launched an unprecedented series of social, ecological, and economic…
Ouédraogo (pictured in 2020) was ousted by the coup.