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Revolutions, Burkina Faso: A Revolution Rectified
directed by Ho Thuy Tiên, fl. 1981; produced by Quartier Latin Media, Collectif Orchidées and Solferino Images, in Revolutions (Wheeling, IL: Film Ideas, 2012), 52 mins
In August 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara seizes power in the former French colony of Upper Volta. He is helped by a commando led by his friend Blaise Compaore. Contrary to precedent attempts, Sankara's coup d'etat has revolutionary objectives of Marxist inspiration: end the neocolonial hold of France on the county,...
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directed by Ho Thuy Tiên, fl. 1981; produced by Quartier Latin Media, Collectif Orchidées and Solferino Images, in Revolutions (Wheeling, IL: Film Ideas, 2012), 52 mins
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In August 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara seizes power in the former French colony of Upper Volta. He is helped by a commando led by his friend Blaise Compaore. Contrary to precedent attempts, Sankara's coup d'etat has revolutionary objectives of Marxist inspiration: end the neocolonial hold of France on the county, favor the equality of opportunity and the education of the masses and launch an economic reform based in the rurality of the country. D...
In August 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara seizes power in the former French colony of Upper Volta. He is helped by a commando led by his friend Blaise Compaore. Contrary to precedent attempts, Sankara's coup d'etat has revolutionary objectives of Marxist inspiration: end the neocolonial hold of France on the county, favor the equality of opportunity and the education of the masses and launch an economic reform based in the rurality of the country. Dissidences appear, and four years after the beginning of the August Revolution, he is assassinated. While the inhabitants of Burkina-Faso continue to live with the memory of a failed revolution, the documentary reveals the price of the country's stability: no democratic change, no access to the wealth of the country, and no real independence from the former colonial power of France.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Quartier Latin Media, Collectif Orchidées, Solferino Images, Jonathan Storey, fl. 2012
Author / Creator
Ho Thuy Tiên, fl. 1981
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Film Ideas
Series
Revolutions
Speaker / Narrator
Jonathan Storey, fl. 2012
Person Discussed
Thomas Sankara, 1949-1987
Topic / Theme
Government functions, Revolutions, Colonial populations, Coup d'etat, War and Violence, Imperialism and Colonialism, Africans, British, French, Burkinabés, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2012 Film Ideas, Inc.
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Truth Seeker, Vol. 92 no. 5, May 1965
edited by James Hervey Johnson, 1901-1988 (New York, NY: Truth Seeker Company, 1965), 16 page(s)
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edited by James Hervey Johnson, 1901-1988 (New York, NY: Truth Seeker Company, 1965), 16 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
James Hervey Johnson, 1901-1988
Date Published / Released
1965
Publisher
Truth Seeker Company
Topic / Theme
African-Americans, Crime, Violence, Religion, Catholicism, Right and radical right movements
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