Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankarawas a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as "Africa's Che Guevara"...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 December 1949
Never be shamed of being Afrikan
dare
We must dare to invent the future
people imperialism
When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.
fundamentals madness certain
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
yesterday want able
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
eye feet people
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.
doe demand
He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you,
country successful thinking
The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.
mean men rights
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.
people humanity want
I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.
struggle self-confidence taught-us
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves; confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of th free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabe.
men creating imagine
Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating,
growth development debt
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave…
patriotic political soldier
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.