The Great Burkinabe - The Upright Man
Thomas Sankara : 21/12/1949 - 15/10/1987
The first President of Colonial Upper Volta. Renamed it Burkina Faso. The land of the Upright man.
A man who embodied being a revolutionary in its entire sense. Also referred to as Africa’s Ernesto Guevara.
“Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail. We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.”
