I wasn’t a fan of Ibrahim Traore or any of the other two Sahelian heads of state until France came into the picture. France has always been the same old, ugly-faced monster masked as a helper, which ...
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, born in Yako in 1949 and killed in Ouagadougou in 1987, was a military and politician of Burkina Faso, president from 1983 to his death. After embarking on a military ...
L’Afrique n’est pas libre. Elle est surveillée, exploitée, neutralisée. Depuis les indépendances, le continent est pris dans un étau géopolitique où la force militaire, l’ingérence politique et le ...
Always historicize”, advised Fredric Jameson, the great American literary theorist, philosopher and historian of human consciousness. It was his polite way of insisting that there are no human ...
Au Burkina Faso, le mausolée du capitaine Thomas Sankara inauguré aujourd'hui. Cérémonie en présence des premiers ministres du Sénégal et du Tchad. Un mausolée construit sur le site du mémorial Thomas ...
In Burkina Faso, a “site of fear” has been transformed into one of remembrance and hope with the opening of a mausoleum commemorating Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary former president of the landlocked ...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara" as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists and turning ...
Le gouvernement burkinabè a annoncé l’inauguration officielle du Mausolée Thomas Sankara et de ses 12 compagnons pour le 17 mai prochain. Cette date hautement symbolique, qui commémore le ...
This interview, conducted by Élisabeth Nicolini with Élimane Fall present, was published in Jeune Afrique no.1314, dated 12 March 1986. We know him as a revolutionary fighter; less as a literature ...