Tag Archives | Thomas Sankara

The economics of Thomas Sankara: The Eighth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2026)

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 25, 2026 by Ferdinand Ouedraogo (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) | (Posted Sep 03, 2026)

What does liberation require when poverty has been engineered by history, dependency is sold as development, and dignity can only be won through collective discipline, popular power and self-reliance?
Thomas Sankara’s legacy is alive in the Sahel: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2025)

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 14, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) |

Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history–can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?
Neo-colonialism in West Africa

Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 11, 2025 (more by Peoples Democracy) |

Francophone Africa was never fully decolonised.
Thomas Sankara remains a global icon

Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 9, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension) |

His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development⁠ was not buried with him.
SPEECH: ‘Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests and savannas’, Thomas Sankara, February 5, 1986

Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 23, 2023 by Black Agenda Report Editors (more by Black Agenda Report) | (Posted Aug 26, 2023)

Thomas Sankara, radical leader and martyr of Burkina Faso, understood that the problem of ecological destruction was rooted in capitalism and imperialism.
Canadian imperialism and the underdevelopment of Burkina Faso

Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 28, 2021 by Owen Schalk (more by Canadian Dimension) | (Posted Jul 30, 2021)

Canadian mining companies own $2.5 billion of Burkina Faso’s gold, and the country is one of the most poverty-stricken in Africa.