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Dubbed Africa’s Che Guevara, Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a revolutionist, Marxist and Pan Africanist.

Sankara served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987 through a military coup led by his friend and ally Blaise Compaore.

Sankara was responsible for renaming his country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, formulated foreign policies that concentrated on anti-imperialism, and various initiatives that favored the advancement of Burkinabes.

On October 15, 1987, Sankara was killed in a coup d’état instigated by Compaore.