Thomas Sankara

President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987

Died
1987
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara 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.

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