Thomas Sankara: "The Che of Africa" and Marxist Martyr

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Comrade Slasher from Nigeria joins Breht to talk about the life, politics, and legacy of Marxist revolutionary and Pan-African leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.

Find our guest here: https://twitter.com/slasher_oag?lang=en

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0:00.0	Little by little, Sankara takes his country out of misery, achieves food self-sufficiency,
0:06.5	but clashes with the French who want to keep control over their former colonies.
0:10.9	Above all, they want to avoid by all means that Sankara's ideas spread throughout the region.
0:17.4	The first to come from the Philippines.
0:19.4	We have to start with the South, because it's coming up.
0:22.4	We are just running out of water to see our deaths.
0:25.4	They can't see.
0:26.4	If you don't, you can take the first flight.
0:29.4	You can go to the World Bank.
0:36.4	Who's going to come?
0:40.4	Thomas Sankara is attacked by those in the North as well as in the South,
0:44.4	who benefit from Africa's underdevelopment.
0:47.4	His closest collaborator, Blaise Kompauhe, with the support of foreign powers, will betray him.
0:54.4	Killed for his ideas, Thomas Sankara has become the African-Chay in the eyes of African youth today.
1:01.4	We're going to be trying to stop him for our own benefit,
1:05.4	our homeland or death.
1:07.4	We will win.
1:15.4	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
1:18.4	I'm your host and comrade, Bredo Che.
1:21.4	And today we have on comrade, Sucomi, from Africa to talk about Thomas Sankara, his life, his policies and his legacy.
1:27.4	We're very appreciative to have him on.
1:30.4	Before we get into the show, we want to give a shout out to comrade, Evan,
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