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Ethan Oversby & Benjamin Maiangwa: “Thomas Sankara, Intersectionality and the Fate of Africa’s Liberation”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by

‘Thomas Sankara is relevant today as a Marxist revolutionary, and a martyr to those inspired by his subaltern resistance to what bell hooks calls the “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”; an “interlocking system of domination” that exist between the west and the rest of the world. Sankara’s legacy is particularly felt among the younger generation in Africa and elsewhere who are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with exploitative capitalism, the kleptocracy of their leaders and other planetary crises.’

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Mamadou Diallo: “Thomas Sankara and the Revolutionary Birth of Burkina Faso”

Posted on February 2, 2018 by

‘The Sankarist Revolution was the peak of a series of revolts, the breakdown of an inept cycle, and the beginning of a historical sequence that would see Upper Volta become Burkina Faso and, to deal with its critical situation, “dare to invent the future.”’

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Michael Neocosmos interviewed on “Thinking freedom: Achieving the impossible collectively”

Posted on January 26, 2018 by

“Real emancipation emerges from collective struggle and must not be conflated with the politics of representation whether by parties or states.”

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