Figure tow often underestimated, according to some, and was especially for me, one of Africa's greatest hopes. In the four years that has been in power has proved with facts that a change was possible.
But like all great the continent was too uncomfortable and did the usual end: murdered by his best friend and companion. But his memory lives on.
Following a brief copertiina is the fourth of a special book of a small Italian publishing house that bears his name www.sankara.it
The young officers of the August 4, 1983 seized power in Upper Volta proclaiming the Revolution and appointing President Thomas Sankara. The following year the country was renamed Burkina Faso, a country of the upright.
It turned out soon that the style of Sankara was new, different, enough to raise for characteristics of integrity, provocation, unpredictability, openness, honesty, warmth, feelings of love and hatred, hatred so deep that lead to his death Oct. 15, 1987.
But his thought is still very strong in the African people. Him with his campaign in favor of disarmament, elimination of debt in the countries of the South, reforestation, he fought on behalf of women to overcome the tradition that saw them subservient to men, that he had abolished the privileges to himself and his presidential staff because he could not think of a president in a rich country with scarce resources, he made unannounced visits to the ministries and offices of the President to control the operation of the gears of the state and to verify the cleanliness of the bathrooms! Him with his Renault 5, when his office allowed him to get something else, he fought for the use of local customs as did Gandhi in India, he has created an office for relations with NGOs , that he had made the gardens next to the prosecutors because he thought the officials did not know they could not even understand the growing need of people dedicated to the farmer-ture. Perhaps for this was assassinated, although on the death certificate is known as "natural death".
It turned out soon that the style of Sankara was new, different, enough to raise for characteristics of integrity, provocation, unpredictability, openness, honesty, warmth, feelings of love and hatred, hatred so deep that lead to his death Oct. 15, 1987.
But his thought is still very strong in the African people. Him with his campaign in favor of disarmament, elimination of debt in the countries of the South, reforestation, he fought on behalf of women to overcome the tradition that saw them subservient to men, that he had abolished the privileges to himself and his presidential staff because he could not think of a president in a rich country with scarce resources, he made unannounced visits to the ministries and offices of the President to control the operation of the gears of the state and to verify the cleanliness of the bathrooms! Him with his Renault 5, when his office allowed him to get something else, he fought for the use of local customs as did Gandhi in India, he has created an office for relations with NGOs , that he had made the gardens next to the prosecutors because he thought the officials did not know they could not even understand the growing need of people dedicated to the farmer-ture. Perhaps for this was assassinated, although on the death certificate is known as "natural death".
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