HISTORY + VIDEO: The Assassination of Thomas Sankara - Vive Thomas Sankara!

THOMAS SANKARA

“The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or because of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the triumph of the revolution. Women hold up the other half of the sky.” | Thomas Sankara

“The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or because of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the triumph of the revolution. Women hold up the other half of the sky.”

Thomas Sankara

 

 

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On this day in 1987 Thomas Sankara was assassinated.


Thomas Sankara:

The Upright Man

Documentary by Robin Shuffield about the Pan-Africanist former President of Burkina FasoThomas Sankara, who was assassinated in 1987 in a coup d’etat orchestrated by his former friend and deputy Blaise Compaore who assumed office in that same year and is still the incumbent President of Burkina Faso.

Additional viewing: Capitaine Thomas SankaraL’assasinat de Thomas SankaraLa famille de Thomas SankaraThomas Sankara ‘El Che’ Africano

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 “I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory[….] You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. […] We must dare to invent the future.”  Learn more about former Burkina Faso president and revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, who was assassinated on this day in 1987.

“I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory[….] You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. […] We must dare to invent the future.”

Learn more about former Burkina Faso president and revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, who was assassinated on this day in 1987.

>via: http://dynamicafrica.tumblr.com/post/33663808137/i-would-like-to-leave-behind...