Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (French pronunciation: [tɔmɑ izidɔʁ nɔɛl sɑ̃kaʁa]; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist...

Mariam Sankara (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃kaʁa], née Sereme, born 26 March 1953) is the widow of Thomas Sankara, the President of Burkina Faso (previously...

Mariam Sankara (born 1953), First Lady of Burkina Faso, widow of Thomas Sankara Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from...

Ouagadougou Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD), officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an international airport in the center of...

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (French: Thomas Sankara, l'homme intègre) is a 2006 documentary film about Thomas Sankara, the former president of Burkina...

associate of the first president, Thomas Sankara, during the 1980s and in October 1987 he led a coup d'état during which Sankara was killed. Subsequently, he...

well as the policies of the military government led by Captain Thomas Sankara. Sankara came to power in what was then the Republic of Upper Volta in a...

unstable political climate. A protracted dispute with Prime Minister Thomas Sankara resulted in his removal from power in a coup in August 1983 and imprisonment...

Captain Blaise Compaoré against incumbent far-left President Captain Thomas Sankara, his former friend and associate during the 1983 upheaval. Compaoré...

of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it was renamed Burkina Faso by president Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabè, and its capital and largest city...

himself overthrown in 1980. After a series of short-term presidencies, Thomas Sankara then came to power through a military coup d'état on 4 August 1983....

revolution. It was carried out by radical elements of the army led by Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré, against the regime of Major Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo...

Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized: Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit. 'First Shankaracharya', pronounced [aːdɪ ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ])...

military school included the young cadets Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré. Touré later became Sankara's political mentor; per Bruno Jaffré [ca], "[t]he...

founded in July 2004 by the Current of Democrats Faithful to the Ideal of Thomas Sankara that split from the Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Movement in 2003. It...

president Thomas Sankara, also a jazz guitarist, wrote the lyrics. The composer of the melody is unknown, but it has also been attributed to Sankara. It was...

faction within the Burkina Faso Armed Forces. OMR was led by Captain Thomas Sankara. The group emerged from a movement of young, radical military officers...

established in Burkina Faso by the Marxist-Leninist and pan-Africanist leader Thomas Sankara, President of the country from 1983 until his assassination in 1987...

only escaping execution through an intervention by then president Thomas Sankara. He was elected to the National Assembly in 2002 and ran for president...

differences. Progress on a solution stalled, and in 1983 Burkinabé President Thomas Sankara and Malian President Moussa Traoré decided to have the border dispute...

right and left factions of the CSP. The leader of the leftists, Capt. Thomas Sankara, was appointed prime minister in January 1983, but subsequently arrested...

said that Burkina Faso cannot be developed outside the path set by Thomas Sankara." In 2022, Kyélem de Tambèla was unexpectedly appointed as the Prime...

well-known members of ROC included Henri Zongo, Blaise Compaoré, and Thomas Sankara. In 1980, Lamizana – who himself had previously participated in overthrowing...

currently serves a prison sentence for his role in the 1987 killing of Thomas Sankara and the 1990 killing of Dabo Boukary [fr]. Diendéré is suspected of...

Military Sankara 5 Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) — 4 August 1983 4 August 1984 1 year Military Position abolished Burkina Faso (5) Thomas Sankara (1949–1987)...

not being allowed by Sankara to serve him champagne. On 15 October 1987, after growing tensions between the two, Thomas Sankara was gunned down in a military...

revolution. The flag was adopted following the coup of 1983 which brought Thomas Sankara to power. The original flag of Upper Volta, adopted at independence...

rudimentary uniforms and yellow berets. The movement was founded by Captain Thomas Sankara, a Marxist and pan-Africanist revolutionary who came to power in what...

Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré. Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso. Blaise Compaoré led the 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état, which killed Thomas Sankara...

Saye Zerbo Coup failure 4 August 1983 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état Thomas Sankara Coup successful 31 December 1983  Nigeria 1983 Nigerian coup d'état...