Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
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Burkina Faso's firebrand revolutionary leader who seized power in 1983 and held it until his assassination four years later, mixing Marxist ideology with Pan-African ambitions during one of Africa's most volatile decades.
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Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who, following his takeover in a coup, remained in power as the first President of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. He was also the 5th Prime Minister of Upper Volta from January to May 1983.
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