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data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Arpetan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Sankara" title="Tomas Sankara – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Tomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE" title="তোমা সঁকারা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="তোমা সঁকারা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Тама Санкара – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Тама Санкара" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AC_%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AC" title="Τομά Σανκαρά – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τομά Σανκαρά" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="توما سانکارا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="توما سانکارا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%A7%88_%EC%83%81%EC%B9%B4%EB%9D%BC" title="토마 상카라 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="토마 상카라" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xh mw-list-item"><a href="https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Xhosa" lang="xh" hreflang="xh" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="IsiXhosa" data-language-local-name="Xhosa" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiXhosa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiZulu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90_%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%94" title="תומא סנקרה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="תומא סנקרה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kabɩyɛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%97%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90" title="თომას სანკარა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="თომას სანკარა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kotava</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C4%81_Sankara" title="Tomā Sankara – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Tomā Sankara" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingála</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Isidore_No%C3%ABl_Sankara" title="Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0" title="തോമസ് സനകാര – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="തോമസ് സനകാര" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" title="थॉमस संकरा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="थॉमस संकरा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="توماس سانكارا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="توماس سانكارا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" title="थोमस सँकरा – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="थोमस सँकरा" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9" title="トーマス・サンカラ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="トーマス・サンカラ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A5%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B8_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE" title="ਥੋਮਸ ਸਾਨਕਾਰਾ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਥੋਮਸ ਸਾਨਕਾਰਾ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="تھامس سانکارا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="تھامس سانکارا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0,_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Санкара, Тома – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Санкара, Тома" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Sankara" title="Tomas Sankara – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Tomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target">Soomaaliga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Тома Санкара – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Тома Санкара" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE" title="தோமசு சங்காரா – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="தோமசு சங்காரா" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kcg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kcg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Tyap" lang="kcg" hreflang="kcg" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Tyap" data-language-local-name="Tyap" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tyap</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Тома Санкара – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Тома Санкара" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%91%E5%8D%A1%E6%8B%89" title="桑卡拉 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="桑卡拉" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">文言</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%98%E9%A9%AC%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%A1%91%E5%8D%A1%E6%8B%89" title="托马斯·桑卡拉 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="托马斯·桑卡拉" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yo badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" title="Thomas Sankara – Yoruba" lang="yo" hreflang="yo" data-title="Thomas Sankara" data-language-autonym="Yorùbá" data-language-local-name="Yoruba" class="interlanguage-link-target">Yorùbá</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B9%AF%E7%91%AA%E5%A3%AB%C2%B7%E6%A1%91%E5%8D%A1%E6%8B%89" title="湯瑪士·桑卡拉 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="湯瑪士·桑卡拉" data-language-autonym="粵語" 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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Captain" title="Captain">Captain</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Thomas Sankara</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Sankara.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/Thomas_Sankara.jpg/220px-Thomas_Sankara.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Thomas_Sankara.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="275" data-file-height="363" /></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 1983</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">1st <a href="/wiki/President_of_Burkina_Faso" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Burkina Faso">President of Burkina Faso</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 4 August 1983 – 15 October 1987</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data">Vacant</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Ou%C3%A9draogo" title="Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo">Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9" title="Blaise Compaoré">Blaise Compaoré</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">5th <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Upper_Volta" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister of Upper Volta">Prime Minister of Upper Volta</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 10 January 1983 – 17 May 1983</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Saye_Zerbo" title="Saye Zerbo">Saye Zerbo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data">Post abolished</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Secretary of State for Information</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 9 September 1981 – 21 April 1982</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara</div> (1949-12-21)21 December 1949 <a href="/wiki/Yako,_Burkina_Faso" title="Yako, Burkina Faso">Yako</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Upper_Volta" title="French Upper Volta">Upper Volta</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_West_Africa" title="French West Africa">French West Africa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">15 October 1987(1987-10-15) (aged 37) <a href="/wiki/Ouagadougou" title="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</a>, Burkina Faso</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manner of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1987_Burkina_Faso_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état">Assassination</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/African_Independence_Party_(Burkina_Faso)" title="African Independence Party (Burkina Faso)">African Independence Party</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mariam_Sankara" title="Mariam Sankara">Mariam Sankara</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Thomas Sankara's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png/128px-Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png/192px-Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png/256px-Signature_of_Thomas_Sankara.png 2x" data-file-width="596" data-file-height="178" /></a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg/23px-Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg/35px-Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg/45px-Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Upper_Volta" title="Republic of Upper Volta">Upper Volta</a></li> <li><img alt="" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Burkinabe_Army_1983_OF-2.svg/33px-Burkinabe_Army_1983_OF-2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Burkinabe_Army_1983_OF-2.svg/44px-Burkinabe_Army_1983_OF-2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="794" data-file-height="2048" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Captain" title="Captain">Captain</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Agacher_Strip_War" title="Agacher Strip War">Agacher Strip War</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style>French pronunciation: <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[tɔmɑ izidɔʁ nɔɛl sɑ̃kaʁa]</a>; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Burkina_Faso" title="Demographics of Burkina Faso">Burkinabè</a> military officer, <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> revolutionary and <a href="/wiki/Pan-Africanism" title="Pan-Africanism">Pan-Africanist</a> who served as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Burkina_Faso" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Burkina Faso">President of Burkina Faso</a> from <a href="/wiki/1983_Upper_Voltan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état">his coup in 1983</a> to <a href="/wiki/1987_Burkina_Faso_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état">his assassination in 1987</a>. After being appointed <a href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Burkina_Faso" title="List of prime ministers of Burkina Faso">Prime Minister</a> in 1983, disputes with the sitting government led to Sankara's eventual imprisonment. While he was under house arrest, a group of revolutionaries seized power on his behalf in a popularly-supported coup later that year.<a href="#cite_note-:9-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> At the age of 33, Sankara became the President of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Upper_Volta" title="Republic of Upper Volta">Republic of Upper Volta</a> and launched an unprecedented series of social, ecological, and economic reforms. In 1984, Sankara oversaw the renaming of the country to <a href="/wiki/Burkina_Faso" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a> ('Land of Incorruptible People'), with its people being called Burkinabé ('upright people').<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-worldatlas-4">[4]</a> His foreign policies were centred on <a href="/wiki/Anti-imperialism" title="Anti-imperialism">anti-imperialism</a> and he rejected loans and capital from organizations such as the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>. However he welcomed some foreign aid in an effort to boost the domestic economy, diversify the sources of assistance, and make Burkina Faso <a href="/wiki/Self-sustainability" title="Self-sustainability">self-sufficient</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey2018171-5">[5]</a> His domestic policies included famine prevention, agrarian expansion, <a href="/wiki/Land_reform" title="Land reform">land reform</a>, and suspending rural <a href="/wiki/Poll_tax" title="Poll tax">poll taxes</a>, as well as a nationwide literacy campaign and vaccination program to reduce <a href="/wiki/Meningitis" title="Meningitis">meningitis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yellow_fever" title="Yellow fever">yellow fever</a> and <a href="/wiki/Measles" title="Measles">measles</a>. Sankara's health programmes distributed millions of doses of vaccines to children across Burkina Faso.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey201873-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-:6-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-:7-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-9">[9]</a> His government also focused on building schools, health centres, water reservoirs, and infrastructure projects.<a href="#cite_note-:9-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-10">[10]</a> He combatted <a href="/wiki/Desertification" title="Desertification">desertification</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sahel" title="Sahel">Sahel</a> by planting more than 10 million trees.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-12">[12]</a> Socially, his government enforced the prohibition of <a href="/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation" title="Female genital mutilation">female genital mutilation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Forced_marriage" title="Forced marriage">forced marriages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy">polygamy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Sankara reinforced his <a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">populist</a> image by ordering the sale of luxury vehicles and properties owned by the government in order to reduce costs. In addition, he banned what he considered the luxury of <a href="/wiki/Air_conditioning" title="Air conditioning">air conditioning</a> in government offices, and homes of politicians.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> He established Cuban-inspired <a href="/wiki/Committees_for_the_Defense_of_the_Revolution_(Burkina_Faso)" title="Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Burkina Faso)">Committees for the Defence of the Revolution</a> to serve as a new foundation of society and promote popular mobilization.<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> His <a href="/wiki/Popular_Revolutionary_Tribunal_(Burkina_Faso)" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular Revolutionary Tribunal (Burkina Faso)">Popular Revolutionary Tribunals</a> prosecuted public officials charged with <a href="/wiki/Graft_(politics)" title="Graft (politics)">graft</a>, political crimes<a href="#cite_note-:8-12">[12]</a> and corruption, considering such elements of the state <a href="/wiki/Counter-revolutionaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-revolutionaries">counter-revolutionaries</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKasuka2012296-18">[18]</a> This led to criticism by <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> for human rights violations, including the government's practice of extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions of political opponents.<a href="#cite_note-Amnesty_International_1988-19">[19]</a> Sankara's revolutionary programmes and reforms for African self-reliance made him an icon to many of Africa's poverty-stricken nations,<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a> and the president remained popular with a substantial majority of his country's citizens, as well as those outside Burkina Faso.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> But some of his policies alienated elements of the former ruling class, including <a href="/wiki/Tribal_chief" title="Tribal chief">tribal leaders</a> — and the governments of France and its ally, the <a href="/wiki/Ivory_Coast" title="Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> On 15 October 1987, Sankara was assassinated by troops led by <a href="/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9" title="Blaise Compaoré">Blaise Compaoré</a>, who assumed leadership of the country shortly thereafter. Compaoré retained power until the <a href="/wiki/2014_Burkina_Faso_uprising" title="2014 Burkina Faso uprising">2014 Burkina Faso uprising</a>. In 2021, he was formally charged with and found guilty for the murder of Sankara by a military tribunal.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Burkina_Faso_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Burkina_Faso_map.png/220px-Burkina_Faso_map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Burkina_Faso_map.png 1.5x" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="351" /></a><figcaption>A map showing the major cities of Burkina Faso</figcaption></figure> Thomas Sankara was born Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> on 21 December 1949 in <a href="/wiki/Yako,_Burkina_Faso" title="Yako, Burkina Faso">Yako</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Upper_Volta" title="French Upper Volta">French Upper Volta</a>, as the third of ten children to Joseph and Marguerite Sankara. His father, Joseph Sankara, a <a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie" title="Gendarmerie">gendarme</a>,<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> was of mixed <a href="/wiki/Mossi_people" title="Mossi people">Mossi</a>–<a href="/wiki/Fulani_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulani people">Fulani</a> (Silmi–Moaga) heritage, while his mother, Marguerite Kinda, was of direct Mossi descent.<a href="#cite_note-dictionary-27">[27]</a> He spent his early years in <a href="/wiki/Gaoua" title="Gaoua">Gaoua</a>, a town in the humid southwest to which his father was transferred as an auxiliary gendarme. As the son of one of the few African functionaries then employed by the colonial state, he enjoyed a relatively privileged position. The family lived in a brick house with the families of other gendarmes at the top of a hill overlooking the rest of Gaoua.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> Sankara attended primary school at <a href="/wiki/Bobo-Dioulasso" title="Bobo-Dioulasso">Bobo-Dioulasso</a>. He applied himself seriously to his schoolwork and excelled in mathematics and French. He went to church often and, impressed with his energy and eagerness to learn, some of the priests encouraged Thomas to go on to <a href="/wiki/Seminary" title="Seminary">seminary</a> school once he finished primary school. Despite initially agreeing, he took the exam required for entry to the sixth grade in the secular educational system and passed. Thomas's decision to continue with his education at the nearest <a href="/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycée">lycée</a>, Ouezzin Coulibaly (named after a pre-independence nationalist), proved to be a turning point. He left his father's household to attend the lycée in Bobo-Dioulasso, the country's commercial centre. There Sankara made close friends, including <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fid%C3%A8le_Too&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fidèle Too (page does not exist)">Fidèle Too</a>, whom he later named a minister in his government; and <a href="/wiki/Soumane_Tour%C3%A9" title="Soumane Touré">Soumane Touré</a>, who was in a more advanced class.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> His <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> parents wanted him to become a priest, but he chose to enter the <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Burkina_Faso" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Burkina Faso">military</a>. The military was popular at the time, having just ousted <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Yam%C3%A9ogo" title="Maurice Yaméogo">Maurice Yaméogo</a>, an unpopular president. Many young intellectuals viewed it as a national institution that might potentially help to discipline the inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy, counterbalance the inordinate influence of traditional chiefs, and generally help modernize the country. Acceptance into the military academy was accompanied by a scholarship; Sankara could not easily afford the costs of further education otherwise. He took the entrance exam and passed.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-britannica-28">[28]</a> He entered the military academy of <a href="/wiki/Kadiogo" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadiogo">Kadiogo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ouagadougou" title="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</a> with the academy's first intake of 1966 at the age of 17.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> While there he witnessed <a href="/wiki/1966_Upper_Voltan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état">the first military coup d'état in Upper Volta</a> led by Lieutenant-Colonel <a href="/wiki/Sangoul%C3%A9_Lamizana" title="Sangoulé Lamizana">Sangoulé Lamizana</a> (3 January 1966). The trainee officers were taught by civilian professors in the social sciences. <a href="/wiki/Adama_Tour%C3%A9_(PAI_general_secretary)" title="Adama Touré (PAI general secretary)">Adama Touré</a>, who taught history and geography, was the academic director at the time and known for having progressive ideas, although he did not publicly share them. He invited a few of his brightest and more political students, among them Sankara, to join informal discussions outside the classroom about <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neocolonialism" title="Neocolonialism">neocolonialism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Soviet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution" title="Chinese Communist Revolution">Chinese revolutions</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Liberation_movement" title="Liberation movement">liberation movements</a> in Africa, and similar topics. This was the first time Sankara was systematically exposed to a revolutionary perspective on Upper Volta and the world. Aside from his academic and extracurricular political activities, Sankara also pursued his passion for music and played the guitar.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> In 1970, 20-year-old Sankara went for further military studies at the military academy of <a href="/wiki/Antsirabe" title="Antsirabe">Antsirabe</a> in <a href="/wiki/Madagascar" title="Madagascar">Madagascar</a>, from which he graduated as a junior officer in 1973. At the Antsirabe academy, the range of instruction went beyond standard military subjects, which allowed Sankara to study <a href="/wiki/Agricultural_science" title="Agricultural science">agriculture</a>, including how to raise crop yields and better the lives of farmers. He took up these issues in his own administration and country.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> During that period, he read profusely on history and military strategy, thus acquiring the concepts and analytical tools that he would later use in his reinterpretation of Burkinabe political history.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMartin2012-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career">edit</a>]</div> After his basic military training in secondary school in 1966, Sankara began his military career at the age of 19. A year later he was sent to Madagascar for officer training at <a href="/wiki/Antsirabe" title="Antsirabe">Antsirabe</a>, where he witnessed popular uprisings in 1971 and 1972 against the government of <a href="/wiki/Philibert_Tsiranana" title="Philibert Tsiranana">Philibert Tsiranana</a>. During this period he first read the works of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, which profoundly influenced his political views for the rest of his life.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESankara200720–21-30">[30]</a> Returning to Upper Volta in 1972, he fought in a border war between Upper Volta and Mali by 1974. He earned fame for his performance in the conflict, but years later would renounce the fighting as 'useless and unjust', a reflection of his growing <a href="/wiki/Political_consciousness" title="Political consciousness">political consciousness</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Visionary-31">[31]</a> He also became a popular figure in the capital of <a href="/wiki/Ouagadougou" title="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</a>. Sankara was a decent guitarist. He played in a band named <a href="/wiki/Tout-%C3%A0-Coup_Jazz" title="Tout-à-Coup Jazz">Tout-à-Coup Jazz</a> and rode a bicycle.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> In 1976 he became commander of the Commando Training Centre in <a href="/wiki/P%C3%B4" title="Pô">Pô</a>. In the same year he met <a href="/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9" title="Blaise Compaoré">Blaise Compaoré</a> in Morocco. During the presidency of Colonel <a href="/wiki/Saye_Zerbo" title="Saye Zerbo">Saye Zerbo</a>, a group of young officers formed a secret organization called <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Military_Organization" title="Revolutionary Military Organization">ROC</a>, the best-known members being <a href="/wiki/Henri_Zongo" title="Henri Zongo">Henri Zongo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Boukary_Lingani" title="Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani">Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9" title="Blaise Compaoré">Blaise Compaoré</a> and Sankara.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKasuka2012296-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_posts">Government posts</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Government posts">edit</a>]</div> Sankara was appointed Minister of Information in Saye Zerbo's military government in September 1981.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> Sankara differentiated himself from other government officials in many ways such as biking to work everyday, instead of driving in a car. While his predecessors would censor journalists and newspapers, Sankara encouraged investigative journalism and allowed the media to print whatever it found.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> This led to publications of government scandals by both privately owned and state-owned newspapers.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> He resigned on 12 April 1982 in opposition to what he saw as the regime's anti-labour drift, declaring 'Misfortune to those who gag the people!' (Malheur à ceux qui bâillonnent le peuple!).<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> After <a href="/wiki/1982_Upper_Voltan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état">another coup</a> (7 November 1982) brought to power Major-Doctor <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Ou%C3%A9draogo" title="Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo">Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo</a>, Sankara became Prime Minister in January 1983. But he was dismissed a few months later, on 17 May. During those four months, Sankara pushed Ouédraogo's regime for more progressive reforms.<a href="#cite_note-:2-36">[36]</a> Sankara was arrested after the French President's African affairs adviser, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Penne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guy Penne (page does not exist)">Guy Penne</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Penne" class="extiw" title="fr:Guy Penne">fr</a>], met with Col. Yorian Somé.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Henri Zongo and Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani were also placed under arrest. The decision to arrest Sankara proved to be very unpopular with the younger officers in the military regime. His imprisonment created enough momentum for his friend Blaise Compaoré to lead another coup.<a href="#cite_note-:2-36">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidency">Presidency</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Presidency">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Burkina_Faso#Burkina_Faso" title="History of Burkina Faso">History of Burkina Faso § Burkina Faso</a></div> A <a href="/wiki/1983_Upper_Voltan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état">coup d'état</a> organized by Blaise Compaoré made Sankara President on 4 August 1983 at the age of 33. The coup d'état was supported by <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, which was at the time on the verge of war with France in <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a> (see <a href="/wiki/History_of_Chad" title="History of Chad">history of Chad</a>). Sankara identified as a revolutionary and was inspired by the examples of Cuba's <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, and Ghana's military leader <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings" title="Jerry Rawlings">Jerry Rawlings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> As President, he promoted the 'Democratic and Popular Revolution' (Révolution démocratique et populaire, or RDP). The ideology of the Revolution was defined by Sankara as <a href="/wiki/Anti-imperialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-imperialist">anti-imperialist</a> in a speech on 2 October 1983, the Discours d'orientation politique (DOP),<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> written by his close associate <a href="/wiki/Val%C3%A8re_Som%C3%A9" title="Valère Somé">Valère Somé</a>. His policy was oriented toward fighting corruption and promoting reforestation.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> On 4 August 1984, the first anniversary of his accession, he renamed the country Burkina Faso, meaning 'the land of upright people' in <a href="/wiki/Moor%C3%A9" title="Mooré">Mooré</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dyula_language" title="Dyula language">Dyula</a>, the two major languages of the country. He also gave it a new flag and wrote a new national anthem (<a href="/wiki/Ditany%C3%A8" title="Ditanyè">Ditanyè</a>).<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Council_of_the_Revolution">Council of the Revolution</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Council of the Revolution">edit</a>]</div> When Sankara assumed power on 4 August, he named the leadership of the country the Council of the Revolution (CNR). This was a way for Sankara to signal that he was going to try for political and social change. The CNR composed of both civilians and soldiers, all ordinary people. But the member count was secret for security reasons and known only to Sankara and others in his inner circle. The CNR regularly met to talk about important plans and decisions for the country. They helped give advice and direction to the government's actions. They voted on suggestions and decisions from governments officials; the decision making was <a href="/wiki/Collective" title="Collective">collective</a>. On some occasions, they overruled even proposals favoured personally by Sankara.<a href="#cite_note-:0-25">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care_and_public_works">Health care and public works</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Health care and public works">edit</a>]</div> Sankara's first priorities after taking office were feeding, housing and giving medical care to his people who desperately needed it. Sankara launched a mass vaccination programme in an attempt to eradicate <a href="/wiki/Polio" title="Polio">polio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meningitis" title="Meningitis">meningitis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Measles" title="Measles">measles</a>. From 1983 to 1985, 2 million Burkinabé were vaccinated.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey201873-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-:6-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-:7-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-10">[10]</a> Prior to Sankara's presidency, infant mortality in Burkina Faso was about 20.8%; during his presidency it fell to 14.5%.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey2018171-5">[5]</a> Sankara's administration was the first African government to publicly recognize the <a href="/wiki/AIDS_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS epidemic">AIDS epidemic</a> as a major threat to Africa.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Large-scale housing and infrastructure projects were also undertaken. Brick factories were created to help build houses in an effort to end urban slums.<a href="#cite_note-africanagenda.net-43">[43]</a> In an attempt to fight deforestation, The People's Harvest of Forest Nurseries was created to supply 7,000 village nurseries, as well as organizing the planting of several million trees. All regions of the country were soon connected by a vast road- and rail-building programme. Over 700 km (430 mi) of rail was laid by Burkinabé people to facilitate manganese extraction in 'The Battle of the Rails', without any foreign aid or outside money.<a href="#cite_note-:3-9">[9]</a> These programmes were an attempt to prove that African countries could be prosperous without foreign help or aid. Sankara also launched education programmes to help combat the country's 90% illiteracy rate. These programmes saw great success. Shortly after the assassination of Sankara, wide-scale teachers' strikes, coupled with the new regime's unwillingness to negotiate, led to the creation of 'Revolutionary Teachers'. In an attempt to replace the nearly 2,500 teachers fired over a strike in 1996, anyone with a college degree was invited to teach through the revolutionary teachers' programme. Volunteers received a 10-day training course before beginning to teach.<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Agriculture">edit</a>]</div> In the 1980s, more than 90% of the populace were still agrarian farmers. Less than 6 percent of land that could be <a href="/wiki/Irrigation" title="Irrigation">irrigated</a> was receiving irrigation, while the rest relied on rain, which was highly unreliable and inadequate. Only 10% of the population had animals for plowing, whilst the rest relied on individual use of short hoes to plow. Few <a href="/wiki/Livestock" title="Livestock">livestock herders</a> had access to <a href="/wiki/Fodder" title="Fodder">fodder</a>; they had to roam the countryside in search of grazing land and watering spots. Because of this, hunger remained prevalent. In years of drought, the rural population was threatened by famines.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> In Sankara's five-year plan, some 71% of projected investments for the productive sectors were allocated to agriculture, livestock, fishing, wildlife and forests. In 3 years, 25% more land was irrigated because of volunteer projects. In Sourou Valley, a <a href="/wiki/Dam" title="Dam">dam</a> was built within a few months almost entirely by volunteer labour. The use of fertilizers increased by 56%. Hundreds of tractors were bought and imported for large-scale cooperative projects.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Hundreds of village cereal banks were built through collective labour organised by the CDRs to help farmers store and market their crops. In the past, farmers would have no way to store surplus grains and had to sell them to local merchants, who would sell the same crops back to the same village for twice the cost.<a href="#cite_note-:1-46">[46]</a> In August 1984, all land was <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalized</a>. Previously, local chiefs had decided who could farm. In some areas, private land ownership had begun to arise. The total cereal production rose by 75% between 1983 and 1986.<a href="#cite_note-:1-46">[46]</a> In four years, UN-analysts declared Burkinian agriculture as productive enough to be "food self-sufficient".<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environment">Environment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Environment">edit</a>]</div> In the 1980s, when ecological awareness was still very low, Thomas Sankara was one of the few African leaders to consider environmental protection a priority. He engaged in three major battles: against <a href="/wiki/Bush_fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Bush fire">bush fires</a>, 'which will be considered as crimes and will be punished as such'; against <a href="/wiki/Open_range" title="Open range">cattle roaming</a>, 'which infringes on the rights of peoples because unattended animals destroy nature'; and against the chaotic cutting of firewood, 'whose profession will have to be organized and regulated'. As part of a development program involving a large part of the population, ten million trees were planted in Burkina Faso in fifteen months during the 'revolution'. To face the advancing desert and recurrent droughts, Thomas Sankara also proposed planting wooded strips of about fifty kilometers, crossing the country from east to west. He thought of extending this vegetation belt to other countries. Beginning in October 1984, over the space of fifteen months Sankara's government planted ten million trees in a campaign of <a href="/wiki/Reforestation" title="Reforestation">reforestation</a>. Sankara said "In Burkina wood is our only source of energy. We have to constantly remind every individual of his duty to maintain and regenerate nature".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeterson2021-48">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="People's_Revolutionary_Tribunals">People's Revolutionary Tribunals</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: People's Revolutionary Tribunals">edit</a>]</div> Shortly after attaining power, Sankara constructed a system of courts known as the <a href="/wiki/Popular_Revolutionary_Tribunal_(Burkina_Faso)" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular Revolutionary Tribunal (Burkina Faso)">Popular Revolutionary Tribunal</a>. The courts were created originally to try former government officials in a straightforward way so the average <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Burkina_Faso" title="Demographics of Burkina Faso">Burkinabé</a> could participate in or oversee trials of enemies of the revolution.<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a> They placed defendants on trial for corruption, tax evasion, or counter-revolutionary activity. Sentences for former government officials were light and often suspended. The tribunals have been alleged to have been only <a href="/wiki/Show_trial" title="Show trial">show trials</a>,<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> held very openly with oversight from the public. According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">US State Department</a>, procedures in these trials, especially legal protections for the accused, did not conform to international standards. Defendants had to prove themselves innocent of the crimes they were charged with committing and were not allowed to be represented by counsel.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> The courts were initially highly admired by the Burkinabé people but were eventually labeled corrupt and oppressive. So-called 'lazy workers' were tried and sentenced to work for free, or expelled from their jobs and discriminated against. Some created their own courts to settle scores and humiliate their enemies.<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revolutionary_Defence_Committees">Revolutionary Defence Committees</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Revolutionary Defence Committees">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Committees_for_the_Defense_of_the_Revolution_(Burkina_Faso)" title="Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Burkina Faso)">Committees for the Defence of the Revolution</a> (Comités de Défense de la Révolution or CDRs) were formed as mass armed organizations. The CDRs were created as a counterweight to the power of the army as well as to promote political and social revolution. The idea for the Revolutionary Defence Committees was taken from Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whose <a href="/wiki/Committees_for_the_Defence_of_the_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Committees for the Defence of the Revolution">Committees for the Defence of the Revolution</a> had been created as a form of 'revolutionary vigilance'.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relations_with_the_Mossi_people">Relations with the Mossi people</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Relations with the Mossi people">edit</a>]</div> A point of contention regarding Sankara's rule is the way he handled the <a href="/wiki/Mossi_people" title="Mossi people">Mossi ethnic group</a>. The Mossi are the largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso, and they adhere to a strict, traditional, hierarchical social systems.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> At the top of the hierarchy is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Wogodogo" title="List of rulers of Wogodogo">Morho Naba</a>, the chief or king of the Mossi people. Sankara viewed this arrangement as an obstacle to national unity, and proceeded to demote the Mossi elite. The Morho Naba was not allowed to hold courts. Local village chiefs were stripped of their executive powers, which were given to the CDR.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women's_rights">Women's rights</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Women's rights">edit</a>]</div> Sankara had extensively worked for women's rights and declared "There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women".<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> Improving women's status in Burkinabé society was one of Sankara's explicit goals, and his government included a large number of women, an unprecedented policy priority in West Africa. His government banned <a href="/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation" title="Female genital mutilation">female genital mutilation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Forced_marriage" title="Forced marriage">forced marriages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy">polygamy</a>, while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-10">[10]</a> Sankara promoted <a href="/wiki/Contraception" class="mw-redirect" title="Contraception">contraception</a> and in 1986 all restrictions on contraception were removed.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> He also established a Ministry of Family Development and the Union of Burkina Women.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey2018217-56">[56]</a> Sankara recognized the challenges faced by African women when he gave his famous address to mark <a href="/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> on 8 March 1987 in Ouagadougou. Sankara spoke to thousands of women, saying that the Burkinabé Revolution was 'establishing new social relations', which would be 'upsetting the relations of authority between men and women and forcing each to rethink the nature of both. This task is formidable but necessary'.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> In addition to being the first African leader to appoint women to major cabinet positions, he recruited them <a href="/wiki/Women_in_the_military" title="Women in the military">actively for the military</a>.<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agacher_Strip_War">Agacher Strip War</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Agacher Strip War">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Agacher_Strip_War" title="Agacher Strip War">Agacher Strip War</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moussa_Traor%C3%A9_(1989)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Moussa_Traor%C3%A9_%281989%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/161px-Moussa_Traor%C3%A9_%281989%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="161" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Moussa_Traor%C3%A9_%281989%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="219" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>Moussa Traoré</figcaption></figure> Following the 1974 clashes between Burkina Faso and Mali over the disputed territory of the Agacher Strip, the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_African_Unity" class="mw-redirect" title="Organization of African Unity">Organization of African Unity</a> had created a mediation commission to resolve the disagreement and provide for an independent, neutral demarcation of the border. Both governments had declared that they would not use armed force to end the dispute.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaldi1986971–972-58">[58]</a> But by 1983 the two countries disagreed about the work of the commission.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaldi1986972-59">[59]</a> Sankara personally disliked Malian President <a href="/wiki/Moussa_Traor%C3%A9" title="Moussa Traoré">Moussa Traoré</a>, who had taken power by deposing <a href="/wiki/Modibo_Ke%C3%AFta" title="Modibo Keïta">Modibo Keïta</a>'s left-leaning regime.<a href="#cite_note-michaud-60">[60]</a> On 17 September Sankara visited Mali and met with Traoré. With Algerian mediation, the two agreed to have the border dispute settled by the <a href="/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" title="International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice</a> (ICJ) and subsequently petitioned the body to resolve the issue.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEImperato2019The_Border_Dispute_with_Burkina_Faso-61">[61]</a> In July 1985 Burkina Faso declared the Malian secretary general of the <a href="/wiki/ECOWAS" title="ECOWAS">Economic Community of West Africa</a>, Drissa Keita, a <a href="/wiki/Persona_non_grata" title="Persona non grata">persona non grata</a> after he criticized Sankara's regime. In September Sankara delivered a speech in which he called for a revolution in Mali. Malian leaders were particularly sensitive to the inflammatory rhetoric, as their country was undergoing social unrest.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalliot201023-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEnglebert2018154–155-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey201846–47-64">[64]</a> Around the same time, Sankara and other key figures in the CNR became convinced that Traoré was harbouring opposition to the Burkinabé regime in <a href="/wiki/Bamako" title="Bamako">Bamako</a> and plotting to provoke a border war, which would be used to support a counterrevolution.<a href="#cite_note-roger-65">[65]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute,_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute%2C_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg/220px-Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute%2C_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute%2C_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg/330px-Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute%2C_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute%2C_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg/440px-Burkina-Mali_boundary_dispute%2C_US_Department_of_State_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="586" data-file-height="404" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a> map showing the competing claims of Mali and Burkina Faso in the Agacher Strip</figcaption></figure> Tensions at the border began to rise on 24 November when one Burkinabé national killed another near the border in <a href="/wiki/Soum_Province" title="Soum Province">Soum Province</a>. Malian police crossed the boundary to arrest the murderer and also detained several members of a local Committee for the Defence of the Revolution who were preparing a tribunal. Three days later Malian police entered Kounia to 'restore order'. Burkina Faso made diplomatic representations on the incidents to Mali, but was given no formal response. At the beginning of December, Burkina Faso informed Mali and other surrounding countries that it was conducting its decennial national census from 10 to 20 December.<a href="#cite_note-AfricaAsia-66">[66]</a> On 14 December military personnel entered the Agacher to assist with the census. Mali accused the military authorities of pressuring Malian citizens in border villages to register with the census, a charge which Burkina Faso disputed.<a href="#cite_note-quarterly-67">[67]</a> In an attempt to reduce tensions, ANAD (a West African treaty organization) dispatched a delegation to Bamako and Ouagadougou to mediate. President of Algeria <a href="/wiki/Chadli_Bendjedid" title="Chadli Bendjedid">Chadli Bendjedid</a> contacted Sankara and Traoré to encourage a peaceful resolution.<a href="#cite_note-quarterly-67">[67]</a> At the request of ANAD members, Burkina Faso announced the withdrawal of all military personnel from the disputed region.<a href="#cite_note-institute-68">[68]</a> Despite the declared withdrawal, a 'war of the communiques' ensued as Burkinabé and Malian authorities exchanged hostile messages. <a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalliot201023-62">[62]</a> Feeling threatened by Sankara, Traoré began preparing Mali for hostilities with Burkina Faso. Three groupements were formed and planned to invade Burkina Faso and converge on the city of <a href="/wiki/Bobo-Dioulasso" title="Bobo-Dioulasso">Bobo-Dioulasso</a>. Once there, they would rally Burkinabé opposition forces to take Ouagadougou and overthrow Sankara.<a href="#cite_note-maliactu-69">[69]</a> Former Sankara aide Paul Michaud wrote that Sankara had intended to provoke Mali into conflict with the aim of mobilizing popular support for his regime. According to Michaud, "an official—and reliable—Malian source" had reported that <a href="/wiki/Mobilization" title="Mobilization">mobilization</a> documents dating to 19 December were found on the bodies of fallen Burkinabé soldiers during the ensuing war.<a href="#cite_note-michaud-60">[60]</a> Sankara's efforts to provide evidence of his bona fides were systematically undermined. 'It is hard to believe that the Malian authorities are unaware that the rumors circulating are false,' says U.S. Ambassador <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_Neher" title="Leonardo Neher">Leonardo Neher</a>. In contrast to Michaud's assertion, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cable states, 'The war was born of Bamako's hope that the conflict would trigger a coup in Burkina Faso.'<a href="#cite_note-monde-diplomatique.fr-70">[70]</a> At dawn on 25 December 1985, about 150 <a href="/wiki/Malian_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Malian Army">Malian Army</a> tanks crossed the frontier and attacked several locations. Malian troops also attempted to envelop Bobo-Dioulasso in a <a href="/wiki/Pincer_movement" title="Pincer movement">pincer</a> attack. The Burkina Faso Army struggled to repel the offensive in the face of superior Malian firepower and were overwhelmed on the northern front;<a href="#cite_note-roger-65">[65]</a> Malian forces quickly secured the towns of Dionouga, Selba, Kouna, and Douna in the Agacher.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEImperato2019The_Border_Dispute_with_Burkina_Faso-61">[61]</a> The Burkinabé government in Ouagadougou received word of hostilities at about 13:00 and immediately issued mobilization orders. Various security measures were also imposed across the country, including nighttime <a href="/wiki/Blackout_(wartime)" title="Blackout (wartime)">blackouts</a>. Burkinabé forces regrouped in the Dionouga area to <a href="/wiki/Counter-attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-attack">counter-attack</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AfricaAsia-66">[66]</a> Captain Compaoré took command of this western front. Under his leadership soldiers split into small groups and employed <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerrilla tactics</a> against Malian tanks.<a href="#cite_note-roger-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-AfricaAsia-66">[66]</a> Immediately after hostilities began, other African leaders attempted to institute a truce.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEImperato2019The_Border_Dispute_with_Burkina_Faso-61">[61]</a> On the morning of 30 December, Burkina Faso and Mali agreed to an ANAD-brokered ceasefire.<a href="#cite_note-AfricaAsia-66">[66]</a> By then Mali had occupied most of the Agacher Strip.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaldi1986972-59">[59]</a> More than 100 Burkinabé and approximately 40 Malian soldiers and civilians were killed during the war.<a href="#cite_note-roger-65">[65]</a> The Burkinabé towns of Ouahigouya, Djibo, and Nassambou were left badly damaged by the fighting.<a href="#cite_note-quarterly-67">[67]</a> At an ANAD summit in <a href="/wiki/Yamoussoukro" title="Yamoussoukro">Yamoussoukro</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEImperato2019The_Border_Dispute_with_Burkina_Faso-61">[61]</a> on 17 January 1987, Traoré and Sankara met<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERupleyBangaliDiamitani2013lvi-71">[71]</a> and formalized an agreement to end hostilities.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEImperato2019The_Border_Dispute_with_Burkina_Faso-61">[61]</a> The ICJ later split the Agacher; Mali received the more-densely populated western portion and Burkina Faso the eastern section centred on the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9li_River" title="Béli River">Béli River</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalliot201022-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-watson-73">[73]</a> Both countries indicated their satisfaction with the judgement.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalliot201022-72">[72]</a> Burkina Faso declared that the war was part of an 'international plot' to bring down Sankara's government. It rejected speculation that it was fought over rumoured mineral wealth in the Agacher.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnson1986296-74">[74]</a> The country's relatively poor performance in the conflict damaged the domestic credibility of the CNR.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUwechue1991600-75">[75]</a> Some Burkinabé soldiers were angered by Sankara's failure to prosecute the war more aggressively and rally a counteroffensive against Mali.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey201847-76">[76]</a> The conflict also demonstrated the country's weak international position and forced the CNR to craft a more moderate image of its policies and goals abroad. In the aftermath, the Burkinabé government made little reference to supporting revolution in other countries,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEnglebert2018154–155-63">[63]</a> and its relations with France modestly improved.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurrey201848-77">[77]</a> At a rally held after the war, Sankara conceded that his country's military was not adequately armed and announced the commutation of sentences for numerous political prisoners.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnson1986298–299-78">[78]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relations_with_other_countries">Relations with other countries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Relations with other countries">edit</a>]</div> Thomas Sankara defined his program as anti-imperialist. In this respect, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> became the main target of revolutionary rhetoric. When President <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" title="François Mitterrand">François Mitterrand</a> visited Burkina Faso in November 1986, Sankara criticized the French for having received <a href="/wiki/Pieter_Botha" class="mw-redirect" title="Pieter Botha">Pieter Botha</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_South_Africa" title="Prime Minister of South Africa">Prime Minister of South Africa</a>, which still enforced <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Jonas_Savimbi" title="Jonas Savimbi">Jonas Savimbi</a>, the leader of <a href="/wiki/UNITA" title="UNITA">UNITA</a>, in France, referring to both men as 'covered in blood from head to toe'. In response, France reduced its economic aid to Burkina Faso by 80% between 1983 and 1985.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Penne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guy Penne (page does not exist)">Guy Penne</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Penne" class="extiw" title="fr:Guy Penne">fr</a>], President Mitterrand's advisor on African affairs, organized a media campaign in France to denigrate Thomas Sankara in collaboration with the <a href="/wiki/DGSE" class="mw-redirect" title="DGSE">DGSE</a>. It provided the press with a series of documents on supposed atrocities intended to feed articles against him.<a href="#cite_note-monde-diplomatique.fr-70">[70]</a> Sankara set up a program of cooperation with <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. After meeting with <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, Sankara arranged to send young Burkinabés to Cuba in September 1986 to receive professional training and to participate in the country's development upon their return. These were volunteers recruited on the basis of a competition; priority was given to orphans and young people from rural and disadvantaged areas. Some 600 teenagers were flown to Cuba to complete their schooling and receive professional training to become doctors (particularly gynecologists), engineers, or agronomists.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> Denouncing the support of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> to <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, he called on African countries to boycott the <a href="/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics" title="1984 Summer Olympics">1984 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a>, he denounced the <a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada" title="United States invasion of Grenada">invasion of Grenada by the United States</a>. The latter nation responded by implementing trade sanctions against Burkina Faso. Also at the UN, Sankara called for an end to the veto power granted to the great powers. In the name of the 'right of peoples to sovereignty', he supported the national demands of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara" title="Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestine (state)">Palestine</a>, the Nicaraguan <a href="/wiki/Sandinistas" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandinistas">Sandinistas</a>, and the South African <a href="/wiki/ANC" class="mw-redirect" title="ANC">ANC</a>. While he had good relations with Ghanaian leader <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings" title="Jerry Rawlings">Jerry Rawlings</a> and Libyan leader <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>, Sankara was relatively isolated in West Africa. Leaders close to France, such as <a href="/wiki/Houphou%C3%ABt-Boigny" class="mw-redirect" title="Houphouët-Boigny">Houphouët-Boigny</a> in <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire" class="mw-redirect" title="Côte d'Ivoire">Côte d'Ivoire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hassan_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Hassan II">Hassan II</a> in <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>, were particularly hostile to him.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism">Criticism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Criticism">edit</a>]</div> The British development organization <a href="/wiki/Oxfam" title="Oxfam">Oxfam</a> recorded the arrest of trade union leaders in 1987.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> In 1984, seven individuals associated with the previous régime in Burkina Faso were accused of treason and executed after a summary trial. Non-governmental organizations and unions were harassed or placed under the authority of the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution, branches of which were established in each workplace and which functioned as 'organs of political and social control'.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Three days after Sankara had assumed power in 1983 through the popular revolution, the National Union of African Teachers of Upper Volta (SNEAHV) called Sankara and his government <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a> and called upon workers to be ready to fight for their freedom. As a result, the government ordered the arrest of 4 key figures of the SNEAHV, one was released shortly after. In response, the SNEAHV called upon a national teachers' strike to protest the arrests. The government saw this as something that endangered the politically weak Upper Volta which had already faced 5 coups since its independence. Therefore the minister for National Education called upon directors of <a href="/wiki/Private_school" title="Private school">private schools</a> "not to use the services of the strikers in their establishments".<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The call affected 1300-1500 teachers.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> <a href="/wiki/Popular_Revolutionary_Tribunal_(Burkina_Faso)" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular Revolutionary Tribunal (Burkina Faso)">Popular Revolutionary Tribunals</a>, set up by the government throughout the country, placed defendants on trial for corruption, tax evasion or 'counter-revolutionary' activity. Procedures in these trials, especially legal protections for the accused, did not conform to international standards. According to Christian Morrisson and Jean-Paul Azam of the <a href="/wiki/Organisation_for_Economic_Co-operation_and_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development">Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development</a>, the 'climate of urgency and drastic action in which many punishments were carried out immediately against those who had the misfortune to be found guilty of unrevolutionary behaviour, bore some resemblance to what occurred in the worst days of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Reign_of_Terror" title="Reign of Terror">Reign of Terror</a>. Although few people were killed, violence was widespread'.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Death">edit</a>]</div> On 15 October 1987, Sankara and twelve other officials were killed in a <a href="/wiki/1987_Burkinab%C3%A9_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 Burkinabé coup d'état">coup d'état</a> organized by his former colleague <a href="/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9" title="Blaise Compaoré">Blaise Compaoré</a>. When accounting for his overthrow, Compaoré stated that Sankara jeopardized foreign relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast, and accused his former comrade of plotting to assassinate opponents.<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a> <a href="/wiki/Prince_Johnson" title="Prince Johnson">Prince Johnson</a>, a former Liberian warlord allied to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(Liberia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Taylor (Liberia)">Charles Taylor</a> and killer of the Liberian president <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Doe" title="Samuel Doe">Samuel Doe</a> whose last hours of life were filmed, told Liberia's <a href="/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(Liberia)" title="Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Liberia)">Truth and Reconciliation Commission</a> that it was engineered by Charles Taylor.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> After the coup and although Sankara was known to be dead, some CDRs mounted an armed resistance to the army for several days.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> According to Halouna Traoré, the sole survivor of Sankara's assassination, Sankara was attending a meeting with the Conseil de l'Entente.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> His assassins singled out Sankara and executed him. The assassins then shot at those attending the meeting, killing 12 other people. Sankara's body was riddled with bullets to the back<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> and he was quickly buried in an unmarked grave while his widow <a href="/wiki/Mariam_Sankara" title="Mariam Sankara">Mariam</a> and two children fled the nation.<a href="#cite_note-CCIL-93">[93]</a> Compaoré immediately reversed the <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalizations</a>, overturned nearly all of Sankara's policies, rejoined the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a> and <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> to bring in 'desperately needed' funds to restore the 'shattered' economy<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> and ultimately spurned most of Sankara's legacy. Compaoré's dictatorship remained in power for 27 years until it was <a href="/wiki/2014_Burkinab%C3%A9_uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Burkinabé uprising">overthrown by popular protests in 2014</a>.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trial">Trial</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Trial">edit</a>]</div> In 2017, the Burkina Faso government officially asked the French government to release military documents on the killing of Sankara after his widow accused France of masterminding his assassination.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> In April 2021, 34 years after Sankara's assassination, former president Compaoré and 13 others were indicted for complicity in the murder of Sankara as well as other crimes in the coup.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> This development came as part of President <a href="/wiki/Roch_Kabor%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Roch Kaboré">Roch Kaboré</a>'s framework of 'national reconciliation'.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In October 2021, the trial against Compaoré and 13 others began in <a href="/wiki/Ouagadougou" title="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</a>, with Compaoré being tried <a href="/wiki/Trial_in_absentia" title="Trial in absentia">in absentia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> Ex-presidential security chief Hyacinthe Kafondo, was also tried in absentia.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> A week before the trial, Compaoré's lawyers stated that he wouldn't be attending the trial which they characterized as having defects, and also emphasized his privilege for immunity, being the former head of state.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> After requests made by the defence attorneys for more time to prepare their defence, the hearing was postponed until 1 March.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> On 6 April 2022, Compaoré and two others were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in absentia. Eight others were sentenced to between 3 and 20 years in prison. Three were found innocent.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exhumation">Exhumation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Exhumation">edit</a>]</div> The exhumation of what are believed to be the remains of Sankara started on <a href="/wiki/African_Liberation_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="African Liberation Day">African Liberation Day</a>, 25 May 2015. Permission for an exhumation was denied during the rule of his successor, Blaise Compaoré.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> The exhumation would allow the family to formally identify the remains, a long-standing demand of his family and supporters. In October 2015, one of the lawyers for Sankara's widow Mariam reported that the autopsy revealed that Sankara's body was 'riddled' with 'more than a dozen' bullets.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Legacy">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg/220px-Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg/330px-Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg/440px-Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso_1984-1991.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="622" data-file-height="581" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Burkina_Faso" title="Coat of arms of Burkina Faso">coat of arms of Burkina Faso</a> under Sankara from 1984 to 1987, featuring a crossed <a href="/wiki/Mattock" title="Mattock">mattock</a> and <a href="/wiki/AK-47" title="AK-47">AK-47</a> (an allusion to the <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_Sickle" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammer and Sickle">Hammer and Sickle</a>) with the motto La Patrie ou la Mort, nous vaincrons ('Fatherland or death, we will win'). A mattock and AK-47 are also featured on the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Mozambique" class="mw-redirect" title="Coat of arms of Mozambique">Coat of arms of Mozambique</a>, while the motto below the arms is also the current motto of Cuba, although in Spanish.</figcaption></figure> Accompanying his personal charisma, Sankara had an array of original initiatives that contributed to his popularity and brought some international media attention to his government. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Solidarity">Solidarity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Solidarity">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>He sold off the government fleet of <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes</a> cars and made the <a href="/wiki/Renault_5" title="Renault 5">Renault 5</a> (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.<a href="#cite_note-:8-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a></li> <li>He reduced the salaries of well-off public servants (including his own) and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and first class airline tickets.<a href="#cite_note-:8-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-:11-108">[108]</a></li> <li>He opposed <a href="/wiki/Foreign_aid" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign aid">foreign aid</a>, saying that 'He who feeds you, controls you'.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-12">[12]</a></li> <li>He spoke in forums like the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_African_Unity" class="mw-redirect" title="Organization of African Unity">Organization of African Unity</a> against what he described as <a href="/wiki/Neocolonialism" title="Neocolonialism">neocolonialist</a> penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-:10-111">[111]</a></li> <li>He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their <a href="/wiki/Foreign_debt" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign debt">foreign debt</a>. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting.<a href="#cite_note-:10-111">[111]</a></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Thomas knew how to show his people that they could become dignified and proud through will power, courage, honesty and work. What remains above all of my husband is his integrity. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">— <a href="/wiki/Mariam_Sankara" title="Mariam Sankara">Mariam Sankara</a>, Thomas' widow<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a></cite> </div> <ul><li>In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army's provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a></li> <li>He forced well-off civil servants to pay one month's salary to public projects.<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-:11-108">[108]</a></li> <li>He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabés.<a href="#cite_note-Grila-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-:12-113">[113]</a></li> <li>As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month<a href="#cite_note-:8-12">[12]</a> and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a refrigerator, and a broken freezer.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Style">Style</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Style">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabé cotton and sewn by Burkinabé craftsmen.<a href="#cite_note-UprightDVD-20">[20]</a></li> <li>He was known for jogging unaccompanied through <a href="/wiki/Ouagadougou" title="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</a> in his track suit and posing in his tailored military fatigues, with his <a href="/wiki/Mother-of-pearl" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother-of-pearl">mother-of-pearl</a> pistol.<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-:9-1">[1]</a></li> <li>When asked why he did not want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied: "There are seven million Thomas Sankaras".<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a></li> <li>An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself.<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg/220px-Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg/330px-Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg/440px-Pionniers_de_la_r%C3%A9volution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="532" data-file-height="387" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pioneers_of_the_Revolution" title="Pioneers of the Revolution">Pioneers of the Revolution</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Burkina_Faso">Burkina Faso</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Burkina Faso">edit</a>]</div> A statue of Sankara was unveiled in 2019 at the location in Ouagadougou where he was assassinated; however due to complaints that it did not match his facial features, a new statue was unveiled a year later.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> In 2023, the government of Burkina Faso formally proclaimed Sankara as a "hero of the nation".<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> In October 2023, on the 36th anniversary of his assassination, the government changed a main road name in <a href="/wiki/Ouagadougou" title="Ouagadougou">Ouagadougou</a> to honor Sankara. The road in question was the Boulevard Charles de Gaulle, now known as Boulevard Capitaine Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_recognition">International recognition</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: International recognition">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> awarded Sankara with the highest honour of the state, the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD" title="Order of José Martí">Order of José Martí</a>.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Twenty years after his assassination, Sankara was commemorated on 15 October 2007 in ceremonies that took place in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Niger, Tanzania, Burundi, France, Canada and the United States.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKasuka2012303-120">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Africa's_Che_Guevara">Africa's Che Guevara</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Africa's Che Guevara">edit</a>]</div> Sankara is often referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa's</a> <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>".<a href="#cite_note-ReutersChe-16">[16]</a> Sankara gave a speech marking and honouring the 20th anniversary of Che Guevara's 9 October 1967 execution, one week before his own assassination on 15 October 1987.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_works">List of works</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: List of works">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983–87, <a href="/wiki/Pathfinder_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Pathfinder Press">Pathfinder Press</a>: 1988. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87348-527-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-87348-527-0">0-87348-527-0</a>.</li> <li>We Are the Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87, Pathfinder Press: 2007. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87348-989-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-87348-989-6">0-87348-989-6</a>.</li> <li>Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle, Pathfinder Press: 1990. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87348-585-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-87348-585-8">0-87348-585-8</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 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class="side-box-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara" class="extiw" title="q:Thomas Sankara">Thomas Sankara</a>.</div></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Monographs">Monographs</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Monographs">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Who killed Sankara?, by Alfred Cudjoe, 1988, University of California, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9964-90-354-5" title="Special:BookSources/9964-90-354-5">9964-90-354-5</a>.</li> <li>La voce nel deserto, by Vittorio Martinelli and Sofia Massai, 2009, Zona Editrice, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-88-6438-001-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-88-6438-001-8">978-88-6438-001-8</a>.</li> <li>Thomas Sankara – An African Revolutionary, by Ernest Harsch, 2014, Ohio University Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8214-4507-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8214-4507-5">978-0-8214-4507-5</a>.</li> <li>A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (Black Critique), by Amber Murrey, 2018, Pluto Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7453-3758-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7453-3758-6">978-0-7453-3758-6</a>.</li> <li>Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè, by <a href="/wiki/Ludo_Martens" title="Ludo Martens">Ludo Martens</a> and Hilde Meesters, 1989, Editions Aden, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9782872620333" title="Special:BookSources/9782872620333">9782872620333</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Historical_novel_including_Thomas_Sankara">Historical novel including Thomas Sankara</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Historical novel including Thomas Sankara">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson, 2019, Random House, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0812998955" title="Special:BookSources/978-0812998955">978-0812998955</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Web_articles">Web articles</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Web articles">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612085544/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=555">Burkina Faso's Pure President</a> by Bruno Jaffré.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612085035/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=418">Thomas Sankara Lives!</a> by Mukoma Wa Ngugi.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612084729/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=420">There Are Seven Million Sankaras</a> by Koni Benson.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612090018/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=202">Thomas Sankara: "I have a Dream"</a> by Federico Bastiani.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612084545/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=526">Thomas Sankara: Chronicle of an Organised Tragedy</a> by Cheriff M. Sy.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120301145933/http://www.thomassankara.net/spip.php?article769&lang=en">Thomas Sankara Former Leader of Burkina Faso</a> by Désiré-Joseph Katihabwa.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612084901/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=668">Thomas Sankara 20 Years Later: A Tribute to Integrity</a> by Demba Moussa Dembélé.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-05-remembering-thomas-sankara-the-effs-muse/">Remembering Thomas Sankara</a>, Rebecca Davis, The Daily Maverick, 2013.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.redpepper.org.uk/i-can-hear-the-roar-of-womens-silence/">"I can hear the roar of women's silence"</a>, Sokarie Ekine, Red Pepper, 2012.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612023830/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=902">Thomas Sankara: A View of The Future for Africa and The Third World</a> by Ameth Lo.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612084128/http://thomassankara.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=269">Thomas Sankara on the Emancipation of Women, An internationalist whose ideas live on!</a> by Nathi Mthethwa.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fasotour.fr/thomas-sankara/">Thomas Sankara, le Che africain</a> by Pierre Venuat (in French).</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arsp.it/2017/10/19/thomas-sankara-e-la-rivoluzione-interrotta/">Thomas Sankara e la rivoluzione interrotta</a> by Enrico Palumbo (in Italian).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Documentaries">Documentaries</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sankara&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Documentaries">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11438158/">Capitaine Thomas Sankara: Requiem pour un Président assassiné</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a>, 1987 documentary by Didier Mauro</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3660004/">Thomas Sankara</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a>, 1991 documentary by <a href="/wiki/Balufu_Bakupa-Kanyinda" title="Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda">Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sankara:_The_Upright_Man" title="Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man">Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man</a>, 2006 documentary by Robin Shuffield</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11409154/">Fratricide au Burkina, Thomas Sankara et la Françafrique</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a>, 2007 documentary by Thuy-Tiên Hô and Didier Mauro</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13232250/">Thomas Sankara, la revolución asesinada</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a>, 2011 documentary by Tristan Goasguen</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2577910/">Capitaine Thomas Sankara</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a>, 2012 documentary by Christophe Cupelin</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11447340/">Comprendre la révolution burkinabé</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a>, 2017 documentary by Thuy-Tiên Hô</li></ul> <div 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