Biography of thomas sankara speeches

President of Burkina Faso from to

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (French pronunciation:[tɔmɑizidɔʁnɔɛlsɑ̃kaʁa]; 21 December – 15 October ) was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist revolutionary and Pan-Africanist who became President of Burkina Faso from , when he took over in a coup, until his assassination in

After being appointed Prime Minister in , disputes with the sitting government led to Sankara's eventual imprisonment.

While he was under house arrest, a group of revolutionaries seized power on his behalf in a popularly-supported coup later that year.^[1][2]

At the age of 33, Sankara became the President of the Republic of Upper Volta and launched an unprecedented series of social, ecological, and economic reforms.

In , Sankara oversaw the renaming of the country to Burkina Faso ('Land of Incorruptible People'), and personally wrote its national anthem. The renaming lead to its people being called Burkinabé ('upright people')