By: Ebele

Ebele — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:42:58 +0000

Thank you for reminding us about Thomas Sankara. It is useful to remember that his administration made significant albeit reversable strides in human development in the short period they were in office. Perhaps you should have mentioned that Sankara come from a long trend in Africa from the 1950′s to early 1980′s of progressive, politically aware middle ranking army officers siezing power and attempting to chart an independent and radical political and economic course. Unfortunately, most of these radical military movements – which go right back to Gamel Nasser and forward to include Rawlings, Marien Ngouabi, Mathieu Kereku – were never able to deal with the twin challenges of democracy and national development. And sometimes these military movements descended into violence and chaos. But of all of them, Sankara’s brave attempt shown the brightest

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By: Ebele