Compiled by Mwalimu George Ngwane
Today 15th October 2010 marks the 23rd anniversary of the murder of Captain Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara, erstwhile President of Upper Volta cum Burkina Faso 1983 – 1987. According to Doug Cooper, the thirty-seven year old Sankara was assassinated with twelve of his aides in a counterrevolutionary military coup by troops loyal to Blaise Compaore. Alongside other Presidential icons in Africa like Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria and Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Thomas Sankara’s brief but bright stint as President of Burkina Faso attests to the mantra that leadership is not necessarily the quantity of years we put in but the quality of service we give out.
Hear Thomas Sankara in his own words:
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