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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 popular revolutionary government and began to fight the hunger, illiteracy and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.