A biography of Thomas Sankara, a charismatic army captain who became the first president of Burkina Faso after a popularly-supported coup. During his four years in office before being assassinated, he instituted a wide range of progressive social and economic reforms.Sankara is still venerated on his own continent as the ‘African Che,’ a legendary martyr like Patrice Lumumba or Amilcar Cabral. The film recovers for the present a detailed history of Sankara’s brief four-year rule and his revolutionary program for African self-reliance as a defiant alternative to the neo-liberal development strategies imposed on Africa by the West, both then and today.

California Newsreel Collection

Sankara, Thomas, Presidents -- Burkina Faso -- Biography, Burkina Faso -- Politics and government, Burkina Faso -- History

Shuffield, Robin (Director), Ridley, Marc (Videographer), Shuffield, Robin (Videographer), Gantier, Samuel (Editor), Dietrich, Serge (Editor), Orcel, Cyril (Composer), California Newsreel (Firm) (Distributor), Zorn Production International. (Producer)

00:52:21 (HH:MM:SS)

English

Higher education

Name	California Newsreel
Role	Distributor
Telephone	415-284-7800
Address	500 Third Street, Suite #505, San Francisco, CA 94107-1875
Email	[email protected]

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