Thomas Sankara

President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkina Faso military officer, politician, Marxist and pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the first president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Sankara previously served as the fifth prime minister of Upper Volta from January to May 1983. After Sankara was appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Upper Volta in 1983, he disputed with the sitting government and was placed under house arrest, during which a group of revolutionaries seized power on his behalf in a popular coup later that year.

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