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Thomas Sankara : A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
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Title
Thomas Sankara : A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa / Brian J. Peterson.
ISBN
9780253053770
9780253053787
9780253053756
9780253053763
Publication
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (350 pages): illustrations
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Summary
"'Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa' offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting for women's rights, direct forms of democracy, economic sovereignty, and environmental justice. Drawing on government archival sources and over a hundred interviews with Sankara's family members, friends, and closest revolutionary colleagues, Brian J. Peterson details Sankara's political career and rise to power, as well as his assassination at age 37 in 1987, in a plot led by his close friend Blaise Compaoré. 'Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa' offers a unique, critical appraisal of Sankara and explores why he generated such enthusiasm and hope in Burkina Faso and beyond, why he was such a polarizing figure, how his rivals seized power from him, and why T-shirts sporting his image still appear on the streets today"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Coming of Age in the Shadow of Colonialism, 1949-1966
Education of a Revolutionary, 1966-1973
A Rising Star: Soldiers and the Political Left, 1973-1982
From Political Prisoner to Populist Prime Minister, 1982-1983
The "Revolution of August 4" and the People's President
"This Man Who Unsettles": Confronting the Neocolonial Order, 1983-1984
The Struggle for Unity, 1983-1984
"Daring to Invent the Future": Nation Building and the Promise of Revolutionary Change, 1984-1985
Politics Is War and War Is Politics: Sankara in the International Arena, 1984-1985
Revolutionary Duties and Perils, 1986-1987
No Turning Back: The Road to October 15, 1987.
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History.
Biographies.
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