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Title:Introduction to Sankara and Burkina Faso
Author:Brittain, Victoria
Year:1985
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:12
Issue:32
Period:April
Pages:39-55
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:coups d'état
1983
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248508703613
Abstract:The first article analyses what happened during and after the coup of August 1983, when Captain Sankara seized power in Upper Volta (later to be called Burkina Faso). The second article contains extracts from President Thomas Sankara's address to the nation on 2 October 1983, in which he outlines the background to and the characteristics of the revolution. Note.
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