A massacre led by Blaise Compaoré, an ally of France, put an end to the 1983 revolution, which today inspires struggles in ...

The trial for the alleged killers of Thomas Sankara began on 11 October, in front of a military tribunal in Ouagadougou. But although Blaise Compaoré, Gilbert Diendéré and Hyacinthe Kafando stand ...

Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of the West African nation Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, was killed in the belief that it could extinguish the example he set for African youth and ...

Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara in 1986. (Alain Nogues / Sygma / Sygma via Getty Images) Reporting for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. On October 26 and 27 in ...

Burkina Faso’s exiled former president, Blaise Compaore, was convicted of the murder of Thomas Sankara, the iconic African leader killed in a coup more than three decades ago. A military tribunal ...

The renowned revolutionary and anti-imperialist leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on October 15, 1987, at the age of 37. Sankara took power in the West African state of Upper Volta after a coup in ...

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African heads of state and their governments must assume much of the responsibility for the innumerable failures in Black African post-colonial development. In August 1983, a group of four young ...