Thomas Sankara Speaks The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 Sankara, Thomas

Thomas Sankara led the revolution that took place in the West African country Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. In this collection of speeches and interviews, Sankara explains how during those years the peasants and workers of Burkina Faso:

established a popular revolutionary government;

started to fight the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination;

and began to combat the oppression of women inherited from thousands of years of class society.

Their actions set an example not only for the workers and peasants of Africa but for those of the whole world, then and now.

Sankara was assassinated October 15, 1987, in a coup carried out by the country s current president, Blaise Compaoré.