Uploaded November 2008 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
newsreel.org/video/THOMAS-SANKARA-THE-UPRIGHT-MAN
Thomas Sankara rose to power in Burkina Faso in a popularly supported coup in 1983. To symbolize this rebirth, he renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, Land of Upright Men" and launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent.
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
newsreel.org/video/THOMAS-SANKARA-THE-UPRIGHT-MAN
Thomas Sankara rose to power in Burkina Faso in a popularly supported coup in 1983. To symbolize this rebirth, he renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, Land of Upright Men" and launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent.
