Burkina Faso on Monday began the exhumation of a grave thought to hold the remains of its former president Thomas Sankara. In this photo, Sankara's grave is seen in Ouagadougou on Nov. 25, 2014.

In Burkina Faso, a historic trial is taking shape for the death of iconic leader Thomas Sankara in 1987. But the main defendant and former president, Blaise Compaore, will be absent. Justin Sogbedji ...

My local bookshop doesn’t stock any biographies of Thomas Sankara. By one measure, this isn’t surprising. Sankara’s name is rarely heard when the giants of the African post-independence movement are ...

In Burkina Faso, a “site of fear” has been transformed into one of remembrance and hope with the opening of a mausoleum commemorating Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary former president of the landlocked ...

The military court detailed Compaoré’s “complicity in the assassination”, the first time a court in the country has made such an accusation. Compaoré ruled the country until 2014 when he was forced to ...

Freed from their left-wing and Marxist jargon, Sankara’s economic ideas can be seen to foreshadow one of the most original modern development theories: the ‘capabilities’ or ‘substantial freedoms’ ...

An autopsy on the supposed remains of Burkina Faso's iconic ex-president Thomas Sankara, who was killed in a 1987 coup, showed he was 'riddled with bullets", a lawyer said Tuesday. At least eight ...

Update: On April 6 2022, Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Thomas Sankara. Earlier this month a court in Burkina Faso’s capital indicted former President Blaise ...

Thomas Sankara, who ruled Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, was one of the most riveting leaders of the last half-century. A pan-Africanist, Marxist and gifted orator, he came to power following a coup ...