Born on December 21, 1949, Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara, one of Africa's most iconic, illustrious, heroic, upright revolutionaries and promising sons, ruled Upper Volta, which he renamed Burkina Faso ...

Blaise Compaoré, the exiled former president of Burkina Faso, is to be tried in absentia for the 1987 murder of Thomas Sankara. Sankara, who was not one of those African leaders to be told what to do ...

I come here from a country whose seven million children, women, and men refuse to die from ignorance, hunger, and thirst any longer. My aspiration is to speak on behalf of my people, on behalf of the ...

Thomas Sankara, who ruled Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, was one of the most riveting leaders of the last half-century. A pan-Africanist, Marxist and gifted orator, he came to power following a coup ...

The remains of Burkina Faso’s former revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara were buried Thursday at the site where he was assassinated in a coup more than three decades ago. Sankara was buried along with ...

Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara in 1986. (Alain Nogues / Sygma / Sygma via Getty Images) Reporting for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. On October 26 and 27 in ...

Thirty-five years after the killing of President Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, his supporters hope for justice. But the full truth about the murder, including any foreign role, is elusive. The ...

A brother of the late Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara says the family has come one step closer to getting justice for Sankara’s death during a 1987 military coup led former President Blaise ...

<span class=author>Anila Ashok Kumar</span><br />KOLKATA: Sankara Hall and Sankara Institute of Philosophy and Culture at Southern Avenue in Kolkata stands out as a ...