Thomas Sankara (1949–1987)
Autor de Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: unknown, Burkina Faso government
Obras de Thomas Sankara
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Sankara, Thomas Isidore Noël
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-12-21
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1987-10-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Burkina Faso
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Yako, Upper Volta, French West Africa
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Causa de fallecimiento
- assassination
- Ocupaciones
- army officer
Prime Minister, Upper Volta
President, Burkina Faso
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 215
- Popularidad
- #103,625
- Valoración
- 4.7
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 1
He wanted a thriving, self sufficient Burkina Faso and refused foriegn aid that only came with a lot of strings attached. He didn't shy away from introducing some draconian measures and acknowledged the excesses of the revolution. As he says, "You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
Always standing up for human dignity and freedom, he always had great faith in people. Particularly the burkinabe people. He demanded great sacrifices from people by setting his own example of modest living. He was very similar to Che Guevara in this way. And both of them were true internationalists.
This book is a collection of his speeches and interviews.… (más)