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Vanguard News In death, Sankara marches from victory to victory On By Owei Lakemfa THE first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union, AU, Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara who had implicit trust in him, he had also tried to abort the African dream. He seemed isolate...

Jim Heffernan column: Burkina Faso will test my geography I thought I knew quite a bit about geography when I signed up for a course called Geography 1 in college. Written By: Jim Heffernan, For the News Tribune | 10:00 am, Apr. 30, 2021 × Jim Heffernan Here’s some recent news from Burkina Faso, as reported in a Minnesota newspaper: “A Burkina Faso military tribunal has charged the country’s former president with complicity in the murder of his predecessor…” bla...

Nigeria—na The Matter We Dey Solve By Prince Charles Dickson PhD Listen to article We have been struggling to fix the foundation of the house. Now the roof is also leaking so badly. What do we need to do? Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba I have often posited that unlike Chinua Achebe’s ‘ there was a country’—for me there was never a country. And that’s why we are where we are…the foundation was bad, the roof is leaking and the windows are not exactly playing the roles it was designed to...

By Owei Lakemfa THE first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union, AU, Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara who had implicit trust in him, he had also tried to abort the African dream. He seemed isolated and already condemned by history. He was one of those infernal cha...

As I disclosed in our discussion last Sunday, Nigeria’s military government and leaders of the eastern region failed to make inconvenient...

In death, Sankara Marches From Victory To Victory By Owei Lakemfa He was one of those infernal characters in history who hid a Brutus dagger in his cloak to stab the trusting Julius Caeser. Compaoré was like a walking corpse, and people seemed to avoid him. Who will not avoid a Judas who was willing to pump over a dozen bullets into his master for a few shekels of silver? History had already condemned him; he merely awaited the weighty sentence which was sure not just to sink him and his famil...

In Death, Sankara Marches From Victory To Victory, By Owei Lakemfa ADVERTISEMENT The first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara who had implicit trust in him, he had also tried to abort the African dream. He seemed isolated a...

Blaise Compaoré: Thomas Sankara death and why Burkina Faso former President dey face murder accuse over di mata 3 hours wey don pass Wia dis foto come from, Getty Images Blaise Compaore, di former president of Burkina Faso, go stand trial for di murder of Thomas Sankara, di man wey im take over from in 1987, one military tribunal don announce. Dem bin force oga Compaore into exile in 2014 afta im attempt to change di law to extend im rule. Authorities issue warrant of im arrest in 2015. One m...

Blaise Compaoré, now in exile in Ivory Coast, will stand trial for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, a pan-African icon, during the 1987 coup in which he took power, lawyers told AFP on Tuesday. The case was referred Tuesday to the military court in Ouagadougou, after the confirmation of charges against the main defendants, including Blaise Compaoré, 34 years after the death of the "father of the revolution" Burkinabé, according to defence lawyers and civil parties. After...