Thomas Sankara

Captain Thomas Sankara
Born	Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara 21 December 1949 Yako, Upper Volta, French West Africa
Died	15 October 1987 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Cause of death	Assassination
Nationality	Burkinabè
Ideology	Revisionism Pan-Africanism Anti-imperialism
Political party	African Independence Party

Thomas Sankara was the Burkinabè military leader of Burkina Faso from a popular coup in 1983 to his betrayal by French funded puppets who assassinated him in 1987.

Policies and criticisms

One of the major criticisms levied on Sankara was the lack of political power from the masses for his "People's Democratic Revolution". During the military coup of August 4, 1983, Sankara has relied on a military bourgeois line of allied officers which outmaneuvered the right-wing imperialized government and relied on the support of urban left elements common and influential in the petty bourgeoisie, claiming to have said that "Our main support is from the organised workers". Sankara never relied on the peasantry and instead shifted his line on the aformentioned petty bourgeoisie, even with his . Power was never seized from the bottom by the people, preferably through people's war.