Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
by: Brian J. Peterson

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 333 pages. 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 in 1987, in a plot led by his close friend Blaise Compaore. Clean copy.