‘Thomas Sankara is relevant today as a Marxist revolutionary, and a martyr to those inspired by his subaltern resistance to what bell hooks calls the “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”; an “interlocking system of domination” that exist between the west and the rest of the world. Sankara’s legacy is particularly felt among the younger generation in…
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Mamadou Diallo: “Thomas Sankara and the Revolutionary Birth of Burkina Faso”
‘The Sankarist Revolution was the peak of a series of revolts, the breakdown of an inept cycle, and the beginning of a historical sequence that would see Upper Volta become Burkina Faso and, to deal with its critical situation, “dare to invent the future.”’
Michael Neocosmos interviewed on “Thinking freedom: Achieving the impossible collectively”
“Real emancipation emerges from collective struggle and must not be conflated with the politics of representation whether by parties or states.”