Thomas Sankara Speaks

The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987

Author: Thomas Sankara
ISBN: 0873485262

Under Sankara's leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa mobilized peasants, workers, women, and youth to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations on the land; to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and solidarize with others engaged in that fight internationally. Sankara speaks as an outstanding revolutionary leader of working people and youth the world over. 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 Thirty-two page photo section features many unpublished photos of the Burkina Faso revolution.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

Publisher: Pathfinder Press
Publish Date: 2007

Subjects: History / Africa / General, History / Revolutionary

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Africa (AFRC))