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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. |