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Thomas Sankara: Africa Needs More Revolutionary Leaders

Thomas Sankara. Photo: Book cover–“Voices of Liberation: Thomas Sankara.” Thirty five years ago Africa’s struggle for true independence suffered a…

Kwame Nkrumah shown with Kennedy during a state visit to the United States in 1961. The U.S. was already working…

Convicted killer Blaise Compaore A military court in Burkina Faso on January 6, 2022 handed a life-sentence to former president…

President Biden. Shaky grounds. Photo: Gage Skidmore. “We are amazed but not amused – By all the things you say…

Alpha Conde–good riddance. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. In Guinea a useless president was overthrown in a coup d’etat by a useless…

Compaore, indicted for murder of Sankara, shown with President Bush back in the day. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A military court…

Bobi Wine campaigns. Photo: Facebook. When the popular Ugandan singer and opposition politician Bobi Wine was arrested last week, his…

Thomas Sankara, political leader of Burkina Faso in the 1980s, was born on December 21, 1949 in Yako, a northern…

Jerry Rawlings. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Africa has witnessed many ruinous military coups that led to much death and destruction. There…

[Burkina Faso\Terrorism] Saturday’s terrorist acts follow two attacks which occured on Christmas and Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, 35 civilians…