Burkina Faso’s transitional government paid tribute on Sunday (Oct. 15) to late pan-Africanist icon and revolutionary president Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, assassinated in a coup 36 years ago. At the event, Boulevard Général Charles de Gaulle in Ouagadougou, the country’s capital was renamed Boulevard Thomas Sankara. Attendees included relatives of the late leader, the president … Continue reading Burkina Faso renames boulevard after the heroic Thomas Sankara