Thomas Sankara Speaks
Thomas Sankara
He who feeds you, controls you.
This collection gathers speeches by the young army officer who led Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Sankara pursued self-reliance, land and agrarian reform, mass vaccination, women's emancipation and a public refusal to pay odious foreign debt, which he urged African states to repudiate together. Renaming the country land of upright people, he tied national dignity to breaking economic dependence.
Its legacy. Decades on, he endures as a symbol of anti-imperial integrity for a new generation of African youth.
- Author
- Thomas Sankara
- First published
- 1988
- Genre
- Speeches
- Theme
- Liberation and the Decolonized Mind
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Independence on paper, control in practice.
- Return to the Source — Amilcar Cabral
Culture as a weapon of the liberation struggle.
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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.