Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.
Forty years ago, African filmmakers and revolutionaries united to reclaim cinema as a weapon for liberation and cultural sovereignty across the continent.
On justice, impunity and ridicule: the historic outcome of the 2022 trial in Burkina Faso against Thomas Sankara’s killers.
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.
Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.
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.
The judgment that Sankara was a hero rests in part on what was politically possible in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s.
Burkina Faso is finally beginning to do right by the memory of revuolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara.
Note left at Thomas Sankara's graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”
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?
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.
The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.
Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?
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.