Dedicated to any and all appreciation of Captain Thomas Sankara

"There was once a country in Africa called Upper Volta, an infamously exploited French colony. In the mid-80s, there was a military coup that installed a popular statesman named Thomas Sankara. Sankara began instituting some much needed reforms, such as mass vaccination and literacy programs, food self-suffieciency, and the planting of trees to stave off desertification (which all of Northern Africa suffers from). He also made such cultural reforms as banning polygamy, genital mutilation and forced marriages, and mandated austerity for government workers so as to focus the country's economy for the public's benefit. Finally, he changed the name of the country to Burkina Faso, which means 'The Land of Upright Men'.
In just over a year and a half, he had managed to make Burkina Faso an economically self-sufficient and independent nation. The French could not abide this. In 1987, Sankara's right-hand man, Blaise Compaore, betrayed him and assasinated him in his office.

Great man!
FuCC French Imperialism / Colonialism
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