• Yarri Kamara

On justice, impunity and ridicule: the historic outcome of the 2022 trial in Burkina Faso against Thomas Sankara’s killers.

• Brian Peterson

An interview with Brian Peterson, author of a new biography of Thomas Sankara. Peterson positions 1980s Burkina Faso as counterhegemonic to the neoliberal transition then.

• Lassane Ouedraogo

Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.

• Benjamin Talton

Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.

• D.S. Battistoli

The judgment that Sankara was a hero rests in part on what was politically possible in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Burkina Faso is finally beginning to do right by the memory of revuolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara.

• Leo Zeilig

Note left at Thomas Sankara's graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”

• Mathilde Monpetit

The “Sankara Generation,” the young people taking on Burkina Faso's dictator, wants radical change. Does it include a better future for the country's women?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

I asked African and Africanist thinkers and commentators what they make of Syriza's approach to dealing with creditors and what wider connections they can draw to our conditions.

• Siddhartha Mitter

The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.

• Janette Yarwood

Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?

• Shamira Muhammad

A French Communist MP announced he would press the French National Assembly to create an inquiry commission to investigate the 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara.