Thomas Sankara
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"Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara" was a Burkina Faso/Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanism/pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

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I can hear the roar of women's silence.

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I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

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Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.

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