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
yesterday fundamentals want
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. 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.
ignorance people enemy
The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
upright-man
He who feeds you, controls you
patriotic political soldier
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.
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…
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.
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.
doe demand
He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you,
dare
We must dare to invent the future
ignorance clouds shining
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
effort our-words our-actions
We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
country moving night
If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong to just a minority. How many of you who have been assigned to Ouagadougou from the farthest corners of the country have had to move every night because you've been thrown out of the house you have rented? To those who have acquired houses and land through corruption we say: start to tremble. If you have stolen, tremble, because we will come after you