This week’s documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.
The story of Thomas Sankara is unknown to many in the west. He was a visionary and a revolutionary – a charismatic army captain who came to power in a popular coup in Burkina Faso in 1983. Regarded as Africa’s ‘Che,’ his brief four-year rule inspired a generation and inspired African self-reliance as an alternative to the neo-liberal IMF ‘development’ model imposed by the West on Africa. Watch:
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Run time: 52 min
Director & Producer: Robin Shuffield
France 2006
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Source Article from http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/09/10/sunday-screening-thomas-sankara-upright-man/
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