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Marxist-Leninist icon Sankara and 12 colleagues were gunned down by a hit squad in 1987 during a coup that brought Sankara's former comrade, Blaise Compaore, to power.
BRIAN PETERSON, the first historian to publish a biography in English of the West African revolutionary Thomas Sankara, talks to Angus Reid about what inspired the iconic leader, assassinated in 1987 after only four years in power