Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
… school textbooks. Yet others saw similarities with January 3, 1966, when a popular outpouring ousted the first president … assassination in Compaoré’s October 1987 military coup.[1] Some of today’s older protest figures had been colleagues … era, including its repressive and non-democratic aspects.[3] Followers of “Sankarist” ideas nevertheless draw on them …