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Thomas Sankara Speaks, The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983- 87 | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Sankara
Publisher: Pathfinder Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 714032
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0873489861
Dewey Decimal Number: 960
EAN: 9780873489867
ASIN: 0873489861
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Thomas Sankara led the revolution that took place in the West African country Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. In this collection of speeches and interviews, Sankara explains how during those years the peasants and workers of Burkina Faso:
established a popular revolutionary government;
started to fight the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination;
and began to combat the oppression of women inherited from thousands of years of class society. Their actions set an example not only for the workers and peasants of Africa but for those of the whole world, then and now. Sankara was assassinated October 15, 1987, in a coup carried out by the country s current president, Blaise Compaore. Second edition includes a new introduction by editor Michel Prairie, foreword, maps, chronology and glossary, as well as an index. Thirty-two page photo section features many unpublished photos of the Burkina Faso revolution. Of the first edition, published by Pathfinder in 1988, Victoria Brittain wrote in the London Guardian;, The courage and originality which made him and Burkina Faso the inspiration they were to so many Africans shine out of this collection of his most important speeches. Also available in: French
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A must read for any real African Revolutionary. October 9, 1996
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Thomas Sankara was a giant among men, One only needs to read this book to see where Burkina Faso (indeed Africa) could have been today, if only he had been allowed to live. We learn about the man's vision for all aspects of life; children, women, economy, governance and the like. A must read for all Africans and friends of Africa. Mukhtar Dan'Iyan
Martydom is not the end, but the beginning February 7, 2002
Adeyemi Joashan (Gary, IN)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book had a tremendous impact on my personal and political ideology. It had so much impact that I named my first child Sankara! "Thomas Sankara Speaks" is a must read for all aspiring revolutionaries. Brother Sankara, exemplifies the importance of Pan-Africanism as a solution for all people of African descent. He also emphasizes the importance of international solidarity of all oppressed people. "He who loves his own people also loves other people." Thomas Sankara is one of many heroes that suffered from imperialism's bullets. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. Patrice Lumumba, Augusto Sandino, Amilcar Cabral, Maurice Bishop and now Thomas Sankara speak from the grave, "Don't Shoot...You Can Not Kill Ideas!"Study, Understand, Expose The Enemy!
Adeymi Joashan
An African Fidel Castro June 27, 2006
Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sankara was a great revolutionary, not just a fighter, not just defiant, but a thinker, a man who sought to united the working masses of his country against imperialism and for progress. Reading his writings give wisdom not just to African revolutionists, but to anyone in the world who thinking about how to defend working people against the imperialist offensive, how to move his people to progress.
In this regard Sankara's writings are important because he is not a phony leftist spouting rhetoric, but a thinking leader of his people trying to educate, trying to involve and trying to give leadership to the peasants, the women, the workers, because he knew real revolutions are made not by leaders or elites, but by the masses.
In this Sankara reminds me very much of another fighting leader, a man Sankara worked with and stood shoulder to should with Fidel Castro. Imperialism and reaction may have silenced Thomas Sankara's body, but as long as these words are available, his ideas will never stop leading people in struggle in Africa and in the world. We should honor his sacrifice by studying his words!
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Twenty-One Years Later October 15, 2008
kfv
It is with great belief that I think every American, African and anyone working in development should read this book!!!!!
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