The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo

Norbert Zongo was one of Burkina Faso’s most respected journalist before his politically motivated murder in 1998. As an editor of the newspaper per L’Indépendant, Zongo wrote under the pen name of... Read more »

We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87, 2nd Edition by Thomas Sankara

In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, Pan-Africanist revolutionary Thomas Sankara explains how the peasants and workers of the West African country Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) established a... Read more »

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87 by Thomas Sankara

Under Thomas Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink... Read more »