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Thomas Sankara, assassinated on this day in 1987: ‘I would like this conference to clearly declare that we cannot pay this debt…just to avoid being assassinated individually. If Burkina Faso🇧🇫 is the only one to refuse, I won’t be at the next conference’ -Thomas Sankara was assassinated 3 months... show more

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Thomas Sankara, the socialist president of Burkina Faso, was assassinated on this day in 1987. He fought to transform Burkina Faso into a truly independent nation, free to chart its own development.

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Thomas Sankara, revolutionary and president of Burkina Faso, spoke in 1987 about the IMF and food aid. Just five months after this interview, he was assassinated, with support from France and the USA.

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Typical African

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Evaluator.

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The Burkina Faso 🇧🇫🇧🇫 They don't want you to see. This is just two years.. Other African countries are not ready to see Burkina Faso in the next ten years to come

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On this day in 1960, Burkina Faso🇧🇫 declares independence from France🇫🇷. Here is Thomas Sankara, the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution, explaining why foreign aid is designed to keep Africa dependent with a ‘beggar mentality’… And why accepting IMF loans is fatal.

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Afshin Rattansi

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THOMAS SANKARA BLAST THE IMF In 1987, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso spoke about the IMF, food aid, and the quiet violence of dependency that keeps nations poor. He warned that aid without dignity is another form of control, and that the debt imposed on Africa was nothing less than a new kind of colonization. Just five months after that interview, he was assassinated. His killers were backed by France and the United States—the very powers whose global order he had challenged. Sankara dreamed of a self-sufficient Africa, feeding itself, making its own clothes, and refusing to be dictated to by foreign hands. They silenced his voice, but not his vision. Today, his words echo louder than ever, as new forms of “aid,” “loans,” and “partnerships” arrive wearing the same old masks. Sankara’s message remains a warning and a call: that liberation means nothing if we are still forced to beg for what we already own. VoxUmmah Venezuelanalysis Qiao Collective Progressive International Kawsachun News Orinoco Tribune @blkagendareport Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast

THOMAS SANKARA BLAST THE IMF In 1987, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso spoke about the IMF, food aid, and the quiet violence of dependency that keeps nations poor. He warned that aid without dignity is another form of control, and that the debt imposed on Africa was nothing less than a new kind of colonization. Just five months after that interview, he was assassinated. His killers were backed by France and the United States—the very powers whose global order he had challenged. Sankara dreamed of a self-sufficient Africa, feeding itself, making its own clothes, and refusing to be dictated to by foreign hands. They silenced his voice, but not his vision. Today, his words echo louder than ever, as new forms of “aid,” “loans,” and “partnerships” arrive wearing the same old masks. Sankara’s message remains a warning and a call: that liberation means nothing if we are still forced to beg for what we already own. VoxUmmah Venezuelanalysis Qiao Collective Progressive International Kawsachun News Orinoco Tribune @blkagendareport Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast

Sovereign Media

33,318 views • 7 months ago

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African Stream

44,388 views • 1 year ago

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Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Ibrahim Traore: ‘They thought they had assassinated the man along with his ideas, and completely erased the legacy of Thomas Sankara. Today more than ever, we realise that the man, the flesh may be gone, but his spirit remains in the world… Changing the mentality of the bourgeoisie is difficult. It is this bourgeoisie that oppresses and continues to align with imperialism to keep young Africans in stagnation.’

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Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 is more focused on self reliance in agriculture because he knows what Thomas Sankara said “He who feeds you control you” is now the reality of many African countries today. The west can’t control who they don’t feed. 🎥 NB: AI is being used to translate from French to English.

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Citizen TV Kenya

72,733 views • 2 months ago

AFRICAN STREAM VISITS THOMAS SANKARA PLAZA IN NIGER Last month, African Stream had the opportunity to visit the new Thomas Sankara Plaza in Niamey, Niger, that many Pan-Africanists worldwide have been raving about. While we had covered the plaza’s inauguration on 15 October, the date of Sankara's assassination, we were able this time to see it first-hand and speak with Nigeriens and Burkinabé about what it means. This move is just one of many in honour of revolutionary Pan-Africanist and socialist figures within the Sahel. Niger’s government recently honoured Djibo Bakary (1922-98), the great Nigerien socialist and Pan-Africanist leader whom African Stream produced a video about, by changing the name of Charles de Gaulle Avenue (in honour of a French coloniser) to Djibo Bakary Avenue. However, the changes in Niger are more than just symbolic. With Niger expelling French and US military forces and ending French mining giant Orano's contract, Niger is forging a path toward sovereignty that we suspect would make assassinated Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara (1949-87) proud.

AFRICAN STREAM VISITS THOMAS SANKARA PLAZA IN NIGER Last month, African Stream had the opportunity to visit the new Thomas Sankara Plaza in Niamey, Niger, that many Pan-Africanists worldwide have been raving about. While we had covered the plaza’s inauguration on 15 October, the date of Sankara's assassination, we were able this time to see it first-hand and speak with Nigeriens and Burkinabé about what it means. This move is just one of many in honour of revolutionary Pan-Africanist and socialist figures within the Sahel. Niger’s government recently honoured Djibo Bakary (1922-98), the great Nigerien socialist and Pan-Africanist leader whom African Stream produced a video about, by changing the name of Charles de Gaulle Avenue (in honour of a French coloniser) to Djibo Bakary Avenue. However, the changes in Niger are more than just symbolic. With Niger expelling French and US military forces and ending French mining giant Orano's contract, Niger is forging a path toward sovereignty that we suspect would make assassinated Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara (1949-87) proud.

African Stream

12,700 views • 1 year ago

On this day in 1944 the Bretton Woods Conference began, which would result in the creation of the IMF and World Bank, two organisations notorious in the global south for imposing Washington’s hegemonic control. Here’s how the United States rigs Africa's economies to be dependent on the US, and keeps them chained to debt slavery via the IMF and World Bank, the 'most evil organisations in the world today’.

On this day in 1944 the Bretton Woods Conference began, which would result in the creation of the IMF and World Bank, two organisations notorious in the global south for imposing Washington’s hegemonic control. Here’s how the United States rigs Africa's economies to be dependent on the US, and keeps them chained to debt slavery via the IMF and World Bank, the 'most evil organisations in the world today’.

Going Underground

14,738 views • 1 year ago

Thomas Sankara is widely recognised as the finest leader in Burkina Faso's post-independence history. He became the president of the country which was then known as Upper Volta at the age of 33 in 1983, and during just 4 years in power, his revolutionary government recorded some of the most significant positive changes in living standards and human development indices in the country's entire history. In this clip taken from the 1991 documentary "Thomas Sankara: l'espoir assassiné," directed by Congolese filmmaker Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Sankara describes how the ideology that animated his approach to governance was shaped by his realisation that it made no sense to run an entire country for the benefit of a tiny portion of its population, while the majority of its people remained trapped in multidimensional poverty and immiseration. Despite his impressive achievements as president of Burkina Faso, Sankara was later assassinated in a 1987 French-backed coup led by his close companion Blaise Campaoré. In 2014, Campaoré was forced to flee to Cote d'Ivoire where he remains to date, after his forces responded violently to popular protests against the proposed extension of his 27-year rule. The current Burkinabé president Ibrahim Traoré openly acknowledges Sankara as a major influence and inspiration behind his government's revolutionary ideas.

Thomas Sankara is widely recognised as the finest leader in Burkina Faso's post-independence history. He became the president of the country which was then known as Upper Volta at the age of 33 in 1983, and during just 4 years in power, his revolutionary government recorded some of the most significant positive changes in living standards and human development indices in the country's entire history. In this clip taken from the 1991 documentary "Thomas Sankara: l'espoir assassiné," directed by Congolese filmmaker Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Sankara describes how the ideology that animated his approach to governance was shaped by his realisation that it made no sense to run an entire country for the benefit of a tiny portion of its population, while the majority of its people remained trapped in multidimensional poverty and immiseration. Despite his impressive achievements as president of Burkina Faso, Sankara was later assassinated in a 1987 French-backed coup led by his close companion Blaise Campaoré. In 2014, Campaoré was forced to flee to Cote d'Ivoire where he remains to date, after his forces responded violently to popular protests against the proposed extension of his 27-year rule. The current Burkinabé president Ibrahim Traoré openly acknowledges Sankara as a major influence and inspiration behind his government's revolutionary ideas.

The Spearhead

15,823 views • 9 months ago

One of my craziest experiences in Burkina Faso was when I met people who slept on the road at night to protect the president from being assassinated. I have never seen such a level of dedication and belief from a country's citizens in my life before.

One of my craziest experiences in Burkina Faso was when I met people who slept on the road at night to protect the president from being assassinated. I have never seen such a level of dedication and belief from a country's citizens in my life before.

Tayo Aina

152,816 views • 1 year ago

They used to charge millions of $ for this. Traore purchased the equipment, trained the young people, now Burkina doesn’t have to pay anyone, and that money stays home to fuels the economy. Oh, and when they are done in Burkina Faso, other colonized African countries can hire them at 1/5 the cost they used to pay France.

They used to charge millions of $ for this. Traore purchased the equipment, trained the young people, now Burkina doesn’t have to pay anyone, and that money stays home to fuels the economy. Oh, and when they are done in Burkina Faso, other colonized African countries can hire them at 1/5 the cost they used to pay France.

WithoutHistory

30,307 views • 2 months ago