Thomas Sankara, political leader of Burkina Faso in the 1980s, was born on December 21, 1949 in Yako, a northern town in the Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) of French West Africa. He was the son of a Mossi mother and a Peul father, and personified the diversity of the Burkinabè people of the area. In his adolescence, Sankara witnessed the country’s independence from France in 1960 and the repressive and volatile nature of the regimes that ruled throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
From 1970 to 1973, Sankara attended the military academy of Antsirabe in Madagascar where he trained to be an army officer. In 1974, as a young lieutenant in the Upper Volta army, he fought in a border war with Mali and returned home a hero. Sankara then studied in France and later in Morocco, where he met Blaise Compaoré and other civilian students from Upper Volta who later organized leftist organizations in the country. While commanding the Commando Training Center in the city of Pô in 1976, Thomas Sankara grew in popularity by urging his soldiers to help civilians with their work tasks. He additionally played guitar at community gatherings with a local band, Pô Missiles.
Throughout the 1970s, Sankara increasingly adopted leftist politics. He organized the Communist Officers Group in the army and attended meetings of various leftist parties, unions, and student groups, usually in civilian clothes.
In 1981, Sankara briefly served as the Secretary of State for Information under the newly formed Military Committee for Reform and Military Progress (CMRPN). This was a group of officers who had recently seized power. In April 1982, he resigned his post and denounced the CMRPM. When another military coup placed the Council for the People’s Safety in power, Sankara was subsequently appointed prime minister in 1983 but was quickly dismissed and placed under house arrest, causing a popular uprising.
On August 4, 1983, Blaise Compaoré orchestrated the “August Revolution,” or a coup d’état against the Council for the People’s Safety. The new regime which called itself the National Council for the Revolution (CNR) made 34-year-old Thomas Sankara president. As president, Sankara sought to end corruption, promote reforestation, avert famine, support women’s rights, develop rural areas, and prioritize education and healthcare. He renamed the country ‘Burkina Faso,’ meaning, “the republic of honorable people.”
On October 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara was killed with twelve other officials in a coup d’état instigated by Blaise Compaoré, his former political ally. He was 37 at the time of his death.
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just watched poor things very very good movie, not gonna be everyone's cup of tea (4 people left during the movie) but it was my number one movie of the year. i felt the full range of emotions and it has socialism.
edit its the kind of movie hexbear would hate but hextube would love.
It looks like fun. Any upsetting bits to know about going in?
yes! this movie has many many potential triggers for people it gets very dark but never like darker then it feels to be alive every day. i know its a movie that could upset lots of people. its hard to give proper trigger warning because its so weird so here are some plot spoilers
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this is a movie about a a Frankenstein women. a women dies and has a baby brain implanted in a grown women.she rapidly develops into a young adult with little knowlege of the world around her. now this sound like another "born sexy yesterday" trope but its a critique of that trope. from the second shes born men try to manipulate and control her in a way that is shown to be wrong and manipulative and there is cummpupence for everyone.the movie asked the question of what if there was a women born completely without shame and prejudice how would she interact with the world and it with her.the book the movie is based on is a metaphor for the independence of Scotland, and it definitively carries over to the movie. heres a list of triggersspoiler
body horror, suicide, cesarian section, misogyny,violence, a slur against disabled people, lots of nudidty, lots of sex, sex work portrayed in a morally neutral light for the workers but shown to be exploitative,the solution the the exploitation of sex work seems to be socialism, attempted murder, grooming, never using the words communism or karl marx just saying socialist, cowards. there is one main scene i think hexbear could have a problem with is where a father is having sex with a sexworker in front of his two teen/ tween sons, to teach them how to have sex, it makes sense in context, no one is unconformable in the scene, and it makes more sense for the psuedo Victorian time period, but i can see how people would get super uncomfortable.but overall its a great feminist film with a happy ending, i would say its an anti manic pixe dream girl movie, but the film is very intent on making you feel viscerally uncomfortable with how exploitative the world and men and capitalism is.
That sounds amazing. I'll put it on my must-watch list!
yorgos strikes again. he's so good
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