Fascist upper volta flag5/4/2023 ![]() Valerie Somé, Ex-Minister: We attended the same primary school in Gaoua. He didn’t understand why the French flag was taken down when the Voltaic flag was hauled up. There was a little European schoolmate of his. He raised the French flag just to get it down and raise the Voltaic flag instead. He got his brother and friends together with a few Europeans as well. Joseph Sankara, Thomas Sankara’s father: In 1960, as we were preparing for independence, he noticed that the Flag of Volta had been created. After that, people called him ‘Captain’ or ‘My Captain’. Joseph Sankara, Thomas Sankara’s father: On December 21 st, 1949, in Yako, the day after his birth, I called his Uncle Abel to tell him a ‘captain’ had been born in our family. As for the rest, history alone will judge me and define me.” – Thomas Sankara As far as I am concerned, I am sure I am an amalgam of projects, convictions of faith, in a future which may require a good deal of daring or nihilism. I think there are three ways of being: as perceived by others, as you perceive yourself, and the truth which lies between these two views. First, because you are never sure of making out what you really are. “Defining oneself – that is the most difficult thing. Bird of prey from Mossi land, I will never tell your name. Narrator: At the foot of what remains of a country of dignified, free men, a lonely, giant tree still challenges and frightens the vultures. This documentary celebrates and assesses his commitment to bring about change and to empower the citizens of his country. In August, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara took power and established a non-aligned socialist government. It won its independence from France in 1960. The following is a transcript from the documentary, “Thomas Sankara.”īurkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, is one of the poorest nations in the world. Leader of the Burkinabe Revolution, Thomas Sankara was a Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who became president of Burkina Faso in August 1983 at the age of 33.
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