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Thomas Sankara

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he who feeds you, controls you


— Thomas Sankara


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I can hear the roar of women's silence.


— Thomas Sankara


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The French revolution taught us the rights of man.


— Thomas Sankara


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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.


— Thomas Sankara


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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.


— Thomas Sankara


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As President he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car four bikes three guitars a fridge and a broken freezer. During the presidency of Colonel Saye Zerbo a group of young officers formed a secret organisation "Communist Officers' Group" (Regroupement des officiers communistes or ROC) the best-known members being Henri Zongo Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani Compaoré and Sankara. Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (December 21 1949 – October 15 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain Marxist revolutionary Pan-Africanist theorist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

On the localized level Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had over 350 communities construct schools with their own labour. To counter his opposition in towns and workplaces around the country he also tried corrupt officials counter-revolutionaries and "lazy workers" in peoples revolutionary tribunals. Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (December 21 1949 – October 15 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain Marxist revolutionary Pan-Africanist theorist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

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