1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 26 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note
Title from title frames.
Event
Originally produced by ArtMattan Films in 1991.
Summary
Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. In the former Upper Volta known today as Burkina Faso, a group of men launched a revolution that would enable the country "to accept the responsibility of its reality and its destiny with human dignity". Thomas Sankara belongs to the group of African leaders who wanted to give the continent in general and their countries in particular a new socio-political dimension.