A graver charge was that he had allied himself with royalists distributing subversive recordings of poetry and music by a former soldier whose nom de guerre was 'Thomas Sankara' calling for the restoration of exiled monarch Kigeli V...
Vol 40 No 20 |
- BURKINA FASO
Now everyone is awaiting the speech which Compaoré is due to make by 15 October the twelfth anniversary of his taking power after supporters of his murdered Captain Thomas Sankara...
The show was organised by southerner Madani Lazhari who has a law degree from Nice France and is Comessa’s Secretary General and Libya’s Ambassador to Burkina Faso where he maintains an alliance that was once with Thomas Sankara and is now with the man who overthrew him Blaise Compaoré...
After the economic boom in Ouagadougou provoked by the 1996 Franco-African summit rumours of increasing corruption (AC Vol 38 No 20) suggest an end to the radical anti- graft tradition introduced by the late President Thomas Sankara...
While Compaoré's murdered predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara frequently sported a battered Renault 5 as his government vehicle Compaoré enjoys a less than austere lifestyle...
Konaré an historian knows the fate of those who buck the Francophone trend – from Sékou Touré to Thomas Sankara – and his recent dinner with Chirac in Paris is said to have been cordial...