Brian J. Peterson

Thomas Sankara

A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa

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Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting for women's rights, direct forms of democracy, economic sovereignty, and environmental justice. Drawing on government archival sources and over a hundred interviews with Sankara's family members, friends, and closest revolutionary colleagues, Brian J. Peterson details Sankara's political career and rise to power, as well as his assassination at age 37… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-05378-7
EAN: 9780253053787
Produktnummer: 33577676
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 350 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'145 KB
Abbildungen: 8 b&w illus., 1 map

Über den Autor

Brian J. Peterson is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Union College. He is author of Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960.