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Thomas Sankara

May 19, 2025

How to crown an impostor

For three years, Traoré’s stock has risen amid algorithmic populism expressed in languages he neither understands nor speaks.

Burkina Faso's military ruler Ibrahim Traore
April 6, 2022

Ex-Burkina Faso president gets life sentence over Sankara’s murder

The tribunal on Wednesday found Mr Compaore complicit in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup.

Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compare
February 9, 2022

Has Africa attained independence?

With the way African nation-states are falling over Chinese loans, I foresee an Africa that will relapse into Chinese colonial territory in less than thirty (30) years from now.