Harsch, Ernest - In: Review of African Political Economy 40 (2013) 137, pp. 358-374
A quarter century after the 15 October 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara in a military coup, the late president of Burkina Faso remains a near-mythical hero for many young people in his country and across Africa. They idealise the image of a committed, self-sacrificing rebel, who during four...