updated Wed. February 21, 2024
-
Camden New Journal newspapers website
March 23, 2018
INSPIRED by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Sankara is an account of Thomas Sankara's four remarkable years as President of Burkina Faso before his assassination in 1987. Written and directed by Ricky Dujany, with Ike Chuks playing Sankara, it's on at the Cockpit Theatre until April 14. For details callÃâà...
Channel 24
March 19, 2018
... large youth population of Africa could use more of, it's the energy and innovation of its young creatives to march towards a future that is better than its past. Perhaps in this way we can all “dare to invent the future”, as Thomas Sankara once said. (Supplied/City Press). Read more on: black panther | movies.
The Militant
March 18, 2018
LONDON — Some 200 people, mainly students, packed the Khalili lecture hall at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies March 6. They had come to hear a panel presentation on “Sankara: World Bank & CFA Franc — the Tyranny of African Debt.” Thomas Sankara was the central leaderÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
March 8, 2018
Efforts made by some African leaders like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara, DR Congo's Patrice Lumumba among others to gain economic independence and development without aid were thwarted by coup d'etat fueled by the West. In recent times, Ghana's president Nana AddoÃâà...
FRANCE 24
February 27, 2018
More than 80 people went on trial before a military court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday over the failed 2015 coup in a case being seen as a test for justice in the West African country. Two top generals accused of masterminding the plot, Gilbert Diendere and Djibrill Bassole, were cheered by supporters asÃâà...
People's World
February 16, 2018
As the Trump regime reels from domestic abuse-related scandals, the compelling documentary Captain Thomas Sankara depicts an African revolutionary leader who boldly launched pro-woman campaigns in Burkina Faso denouncing bad husbands who commit domestic abuse; banning femaleÃâà...
PRI
October 31, 2017
Thomas Sankara declared Burkina Faso 'the land of people of integrity' ... On the first anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power, Captain Thomas Sankara rejected the colonial name of his country — Upper Volta — and by presidential mandate declared the country would be known as BurkinaÃâà...
eNCA
October 17, 2017
"We came here to call for justice for Thomas Sankara. We want to know who ordered his death and who shot Thomas Sankara. We will not rest until we find out who is responsible for his death," said Former Prime Minister in Sankara's Government, Abdou Salam Kabore. The uprising was led by Sankara'sÃâà...
Quartz
October 15, 2017
Thirty years after the assassination of Africa's last revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, the front cover of this week's edition of the pan-African magazine Jeune Afrique is entitled “Who Killed Sankara?” The question has swirled since October 15, 1987 when the charismatic army captain was killed in aÃâà...
africanews
October 13, 2017
In the streets of Ouagadougou, the icon of the Burkinabe revolution is omnipresent. Assassinated thirty years ago, Thomas Sankara, the “African Che Guevara” fascinates many people as well as his mysterious death. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. Thomas Sankara came to power by a coup inÃâà...
The Militant
December 31, 1999
LONDON — Some 200 people, mainly students, packed the Khalili lecture hall at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies March 6. They had come to hear a panel presentation on “Sankara: World Bank & CFA Franc — the Tyranny of African Debt.” Thomas Sankara was the central leaderÃâà...
