Don’t know about you; but methinks this new kid on the block, the world’s youngest serving head of state – Capt Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso – is really cool
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore: Our dear Thomas Sankara has come back to life.
It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker’s wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext.
Thomas Sankara, Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (PDF)
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Thirty-five years ago this month, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries was murdered by former comrades.
“Africa’s Che Guevara,” as he was known, was shot down in a coup d’etat by soldiers who were rebelling against his socialist transformation of Burkina Faso, a landlocked and poor remnant of the French colonial empire in West Africa.
35 Years After His Assassination, Thomas Sankara Still Inspires Liberation in Africa
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