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52-5477b DT555 2014-29649 CIP Harsch, Ernest. Thomas Sankara: an African revolutionary. Ohio University, 2015. 163p bibl index afp ISBN 9780821421260 pbk, $14.95
Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara were young, articulate, 20th-century African revolutionaries who lived their brief but important lives at the cusp of independence from colonial rule. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, in great contrast, was the powerful patriot who suffered the Italian invasion of his country and, when restored, ruled autocratically until a violent Marxist coup pushed...