'Remembering our brother, Thomas Sankara' - BBC Africa

The long-awaited trial into the murder of former Burkina Faso president, Thomas Sankara, has begun in the capital, Ouagadougou. He was killed in a coup in 1987. He was known for his integrity and modest lifestyle. Two of his brothers, Paul and Valentin Sankara, share some memories they have of the Burkinabé revolutionary.
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[@askarjr7158]

"He who feeds you Controls you" Thomas Sankara

[@findingian001]

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[@agebeabelaluma5401]

I cannot express how proud I am that such a man walked this earth and he was an African.

[@musamusashi]

We should show our pride in him by following his path: as long as we leave our good leaders alone, our colonial enemies will have it easy in getting rid of them: from Lumumba, to Sankara and then Gaddafi and this year Magufuli of Tanzania, who wasn't willing to sell his people out to the covid circus like most of our "leaders" did.

[@findingian001]

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[@musamusashi]

The best leader in "post" colonial Africa. Sadly left alone by all other leaders and betrayed by his "best friend", who sold him out to the evil colonial forces. One of my greatest heroes and role models, my son is named after him.

[@joeadams1225]

Heya Musa, thank you.

[@kianster9529]

What about Botswana?

[@musamusashi]

@@kianster9529 what about Botswana?

[@kianster9529]

@@musamusashi its leader, he made Botswana like, one of the best african nations Believe me, sankara was really good leader, not trying to downgrade him

[@sydneyjephter1721]

Wooow that nice

[@rockthered8706]

You can kill revolutionaries, but you can never kill revolutionary ideas!

[@Khalid-mf3iu]

True words by himself Thomas Sankara

[@beniyamredaezgi7516]

This is not the write way to see what happend. We condemn those who did it. And the west did it.

[@rockthered8706]

@@beniyamredaezgi7516 of course and fight to dismantle the systems of oppression that underdeveloped Africa and the rest of the global south to begin with

[@carlmiller369]

I changed my middle name to SANKARA this past April, to honor this great man.

[@kamo9882]

Good to know you Mr Carl Sankara Miller.

[@carlmiller369]

@@kamo9882 LOL......... Don't kill me with laughter hahaha. Carl Miller is a fake name I use online, my coworker was standing in front of me so I used his real name. I'm from Sierra Leone, I had an arab name so I changed it to an African cartoon characters name and Sankara as my middle name. I'm a proud Pan Africanist and really proud of my new name.

[@Millions_de_Sankara]

That's a great decision you've made! I believe you, too, will be able to accomplish great things in this world and inspire many others. Stay blessed!

[@averyj5446]

@@Millions_de_Sankara I will build a library in Somalia in honor of him.

[@Millions_de_Sankara]

@@averyj5446 That’s a wonderful aspiration. May God give you the strength to accomplish it. We will send members of our team to visit your library and put in books about Sankara. So please keep us updated as you go on with this dream. Stay blessed.

[@Disha87]

'While revolutionaries are individual can be murdered You cannot kills ideas' Always my Hero✊✊🙏

[@flowerface9011]

One of the most important revolutionaries of all time. Seldom do men have as pure of intentions as Sankara, rest in power comrade

[@findingian001]

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[@schoolwork232]

Seldom...

[@Qwerty-db1js]

True.

[@jean6030]

May a million Sankaras be born on this continent

[@CyNiiCaL_nR7Gaming]

Thomas Sankara was truly an upright man. I wish to go to that memorial of him one day. Love to Burkina Faso from Canada

[@obinnaigboeli6686]

I wish Blaise Compaoré never betrayed his people. I wish Capitaine Isidore Thomas Sankara was not killed. I wish Burkina Faso-- The Land Of The Upright Men--- Thomas Sankara. Burkinabe is need of Thomas Sankara. Vraiment Burkina Faso est un pays en besoin de Capitaine Thomas Sankara. Long live Sankara! Vive Sankara! On ne vous oubliera jamais ! You're Forever In Our hearts And Minds!

[@moideen3850]

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[@lazareedzogo1403]

This man was a tbrough leader ! He always care bout his people well being . He has renonced to all the privileges kf his rang: travel wut normal airline., no expensive cars .... i recall his visit to yde it was amazing : all the shops of central markets were closed bh the owners to gk and welcome a through african soil. None has ever received such hinors in Cameroon :that day i new it will not continue for a long time because we wrote a lot of hebdomadaires expressing unhappiness of europeans and african aparchics . As usual you need traitor to execute unamed agenda : Miterand and Felix Houphouet Boigny agreed on exexution and blaise kompaore did the job. One day one day he will pay for that crime. And as weaked one will never remembered May the almughty grant africa many leader like him

[@faithwafula7466]

Great African leaders are never mentioned in history books we teach kids in schools

[@shalommoses5034]

Why are you expecting to be thought of great leaders in history books while as African you are not writing your own history! The so called white although they are actually not will never teach you that.

[@Dubz9Ball]

We have to start doing this it’s up to us to change the narrative

[@lovejoymachingura6905]

It's such a pity

[@moideen3850]

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[@danteicon5083]

🌍🐐

[@Anzoumen]

2min53: this silence means a lot.

[@dreamer2260]

Thomas Sankara is a personal hero of mine. What he did for the people of Burkina Faso was extraordinary, and his murder and overthrow and the reversal of his reforms was an absolute crime and a tragedy. I hope Compaore finally faces justice. There are no words to describe such a backstabbing traitor. My heart breaks for his brothers, his wife, all who knew him and mourned his death. They must be so incredibly proud of him.

[@bjenemune7593]

True leader with no corruption records,guitar, motorcycle and fridge was only his belongings, a True leader who values his people than money long live peoples leader

[@Millions_de_Sankara]

Absolutely true!

[@pan-africanist2413]

This should teach all readers mostly in Africa that what ever u do good or wrong, it is written on yo shoulders,RIP COMRADE THOMAS SANKARA it's about 34yrs since u was murdered but we still remember the great things u did for yo nation,we lost the pan-Africanist.😭😭😭

[@daniboy577]

pan africanist wether they get killed or removed .. why ask bbc … trust me the killing is orchestrated and funded by westerns … do not trust BBC

[@petitben5240]

@@daniboy577 perhaps funded by western countries, but ultimately it's we the African who have been betraying our own people since the beginning of post colonial Africa. It's our fellow African who betrayed Dr.nkrumah, Olympio, Marien N'gouabi, the list sadly is very long. Ce sont les africains eux-mêmes qui sont ultimement responsables de ces douloureux événements.

[@Hasara_Tupu]

34 years on and we still remember and moan you comrade. If only we can resurrect a person. Much love from kenya

[@MrCeora]

He sounded like a man with compassion, vision, integrity, and very wise well beyond his years. An example and model for anyone else who has this moral courage...

[@aspireautomobile6315]

Long Live commander sankara ... Love from India 🇮🇳 ♥

[@beneyamatsbeha4807]

Visionary man taken away from us so young !

[@alfredjudah24]

In life and in death, All Men Of GoodWill around the world LOVE Him

[@selahtube9432]

My African brothers dont forget BBC is a British media.

[@findingian001]

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[@slovenianasperger4883]

That's why they didn't tell real story of his murder

[@kuze1706]

Long Life to Sankara ! Long Life to his ideas ! 🚩✊🏿

[@jomoeiviem7619]

Rest in Power President Sankara ✊

[@abdallamaaruph]

A rare gem

[@mikelantern148]

The man deserves Justice!!!

[@MaryOdere]

I enjoyed watching this so much. A great man he was. Out history needs to be inculcated into our syllabuses

[@moideen3850]

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[@Millions_de_Sankara]

A wonderful and well-researched book is being written about him now. Stay tuned.

[@Millions_de_Sankara]

A wonderful and well-researched book is being written about him now. Stay tuned.

[@stevejahguide3209]

Rest in peace Burkinafaso best ever president and he was to be African best!! I honor you Captain Thomas Sankara

[@abdilahibg8794]

What a leader!!!! May God have mercy on his soul may his bright star shine on other leaders.

[@moideen3850]

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[@bracoozito5461]

Africa's president... RIP legend

[@kinderlokker0306]

May Allah swt forgive & bless brother Thomas Sankara, my dad used to tell me about the greatness of this man & how much he was loved in & outside of Africa, much love from somalia for my burkinabe brothers & sisters 🇸🇴❤️🇧🇫

[@martinhammond297]

Wow! I’m shocked! Africa lost a GREAT man😢 Not even his family! My president wanted to pay his wife and second lady from 2017, huge sums of money yet he keeps saying we’re not in normal times… God keep Sankara’s soul🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@slickrick2420]

One of the greatest revolutionaries

[@tonyubaka3810]

The man was and is still way ahead of his time.He knew what he needed to do and went about it with vigour.

[@monalisawm]

Great Pan Afrikanist we still celebrate him the whole of Afrika. His vision and many Pan Afrikans still lives on and on...United States of Afrika😭🖤🌍🌍✊🏾✊🏾

[@daniboy577]

remember BBC belongs to westerns .. wake up and unsubscribe.. they are behind all pan africans death

[@aminaalhassandiasso1842]

Why is anyone not talking about the orchestrators who funded this misdeed 🥺🙄?

[@georgeikinya2779]

Am also confounded, it's like was normal to kill him.

[@moideen3850]

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[@lacinabakayoko4634]

You hit the nail in the head.big fish orchestrated his assasination with the enemy within dig it

[@diirestraits4881]

Macron might help to answer that question

[@tobiisiba1641]

@@diirestraits4881 lol was he the president then.

[@issafula]

I wish they would have done a longer video, so we can get an in-depth look at everything, especially from their family's point of view. That would have been amazing.

[@moideen3850]

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[@marandymbamara9099]

BBC represents the white oligarchic capitalist patriarchy! So why do you think they will go into details of who killed Sankara. It was imperialists who murdered him, Blaise was only an agent that's all

[@josemanguema3447]

please would you do longuer video, I am from equatorial guinea , 42 years old, my fisrt son is called by name Shankara, very sad , burkina faso and africa lost a real icon

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Know your history will erase the enemy mystery

[@musamusashi]

Look for "Thomas Sankara the upright man" on youtube or other longer documentaries.

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

" to see your enemy and know him is a part of complete education of man " Mr MARCUS "MESSIAH"GARVEY

[@krezwan6450]

Good people rarely stay

[@nominoms9525]

I wonder what it would be like in his country if he were still alive.

[@metsihetkebede116]

*Today Sankara 's spirit is all over Africa!* This is the richest continent in the world, where the population lives in poverty. That is a paradox!

[@RichardCyberPunk]

Beautifull ode to Thomas Sankara. Thank you for posting.

[@slovenianasperger4883]

RIP Comrade Thomas Sankara

[@MrNeversweat]

He was loved by all Africans, finally justice will be served. You'll finally RIP Sankara

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Justice where the big fish who orchestrated his assasination dig it.

[@MrNeversweat]

@@lacinabakayoko4634 France is the big fish but the ex president Mr Compaore is the the puppet they've used to assassinate him

[@musamusashi]

@@MrNeversweat France AND USA

[@beniyamredaezgi7516]

bbc is not the write place to remember Sankara. What we, africans must lern from the assesnahtion of Sankara is that, we have still long way to go to be able to have our own leaders. The wester imperialists will see to that, that some one like him will not happen.

[@theitaltemple9362]

Never forget and always remember to share with those you meet the story of just one other who helped you along the way

[@MrDifficille]

Thanks for this.

[@lateefatbada8568]

Thomas Dakara you shall never be forgotten but the people that mastermind your killing will never no peace in there life forever.

[@lateefatbada8568]

I don’t know you physically but the legacy you left in your country made people to love more.

[@ebrimasillah2553]

Justice for Thomas Sankara. He stands for humanity and truth to developped Africa Continent

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Big fish orchestrated his assasination with the enemy within dig it

[@AmadouDiallo-ry5zm]

Le meilleur président de tous les temps c'est vous Sankara tu nous manque énormément mais ont te le promets que nous les jeunes ont te vangera ❣️❣️🌹🌹

[@nathanielnwachukwu9698]

I pray many more Sankara emerge not just from Burkina Faso but from the whole of Africa to liberate Africa from the clothes of slavery. Yeah, you say are we enslaved? Oh yes!

[@musamusashi]

The problem is that when those great leaders emerge, they are often left alone and betrayed: one leader, as good as he may be, can't do much alone: the masses must rise their collective consciousness and take responsibility to make a change.

[@schoolwork232]

@@musamusashi so true!

[@victordeke559]

Good things never last in this world he was a great man

[@beniyamredaezgi7516]

such a thing called bbc ( british brodcasting corp.) africa. This do not make sense, it contradicts. We need african brodcasting corp, ABC. Africans should have eyes that see and not the other ways.

[@babarkamara7859]

He was great Leander and love hos people because he care.

[@moideen3850]

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[@yd7742]

Thomas Sankara was and still is African Hero.

[@queenslayerthefifth1771]

A "feminist" and "environmentalist" well before that was fashionable. He made a 50 years for Burkina before he got killed. Promoted lot of women in the government, encouraged the education of girls in schools, planted trees to stop the desertification in the Sahel region .....etc, truly a visionary. RIP Tom Sank

[@lasbusinessminset2613]

Un grand à lui et sa famille. Jamais on l'oublira et sa restera un exemple pour tous les africains.

[@usmanturnbull5216]

This is an example of socialist policies being implemented and working

[@findingian001]

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[@LubulaAfritech]

I love this

[@josemanguema3447]

his 3guitars, bicycle, fridge , only legacy as a african preident!!! bravo, people call him the Che of africa, and I called them Che =Thomas sankara of south america, Jose mujica= thomas sankara of uruguay, whay not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@musamusashi]

Only because Che came first in time, and when 2 decades after, Sankara's honesty and courage, reminded the world of him, people started to call him the African Che. Mujica was a good leader but you can't compare him with those two revolutionary giants.

[@hopeerrands8016]

My hero together with Gaddafi.

[@chrispinusrubia5047]

The family ain't rich because he was a leader with values. Selfless. A few years from now when we review current leaders, we will seen mansions n bungalows with Porsche cars swimming pools and etc. Our leaders are finishing us oooh

[@moideen3850]

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[@lacinabakayoko4634]

" the ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends serve that are for all,in common,will take you into eternity" Mr MARCUS" MESSIAH" GARVEY

[@musamusashi]

Because we allow them to.

[@schoolwork232]

@@musamusashi So true!

[@joeadams1225]

I was living a corporate life in 1983/4/5 and never heard of this man. If I had my time back I would have gone to help. Same age and burning sense of colonial injustice. Obviously, a short but real life.......

[@patricesekanyambo284]

Watching this video on BBC I even felt much pains 😢 😫 😭.

[@amadousawadogo4984]

Good name is better than riches

[@purpleplant9515]

Great

[@matthewwatson9726]

The upright man who freed his land

[@jeanclouivil7893]

Love ❤️

[@umojapress2857]

The dream of pan africanism died with sankara.

[@emmanuelameyaw9735]

😂😂...why is that?

[@musamusashi]

If the dream of unity is dead, what your name stands for?

[@umojapress2857]

@@musamusashi Uniting bantu countries in southern, central and east africa.

[@biancavandijk8276]

💖💖💖

[@fardoshnassor7847]

😢

[@saidoutourayv1453]

If I see the image of our heroes in Africa I feel like crying because there was love Africa a lot and they need to see to build the United State of Africa let the gold and diamond Country Africa is

[@opelastraappukannanpollach6345]

Good

[@b.rabietoumohamed7402]

Vraiment il ya plus des milliards de thomas Sankara ojourdui humm pais a ton âme et tu seras toujours un income 💕💕💕💕💕

[@manpollobeatsug]

🙏🙏🙏🌹

[@bonnybonny8337]

I am a big fan of Residents Presidents on the BBC world service. Olushambles and Kibarkingmad have always reminded me that great leaders have no place in this continent.

[@moideen3850]

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[@immanuelyahshua5388]

📡

[@mobutuseseseko2989]

*vive thomas sankara*

[@alagiejobarteh3895]

a very great leader and am happy that the law have take its course let Blaise serve life in prison

[@jeanclouivil7893]

Lamour ❤️❤️

[@johnkuma6867]

Anything with association with French in Africa has ended up in disaster. Just go your own way former French territories in W.africa if you want to see thought of the future and abandon the French like Rwanda

[@gilbizzy]

thomas sankara

[@deregeabay4735]

All of Africans president killed or removed from power by west starting from Patrice lumunba, all the way to sankara

[@Millions_de_Sankara]

That's the sad truth indeed. They eliminate our great leaders and then come back to tell us that Africa need great leaders!

[@luaiderar6600]

I will never forgive the french

[@selahtube9432]

🇪🇹

[@madman21]

Funny thing is as time went on a lot of Burkinabes got fed up with sankara's ideas. But as with the norm for all Africans we tend to realize what we had after its long gone. We don't believe in make the sacrifices today for a better tomorrow so we complain about our leaders and only appreciate them after they are gone

[@fuckyuru_]

LONG LIVE COMRADE SANKARA ❤☭

[@beautypraprah3977]

Lies he doesn't look like sankara

[@georgeikinya2779]

This is the curse of Africa. We are so good at killing and discarding the best that God has endowed us with, so adept at dimming and putting off flames of vision that illuminates our paths to self respect and dignified social economic sustainability while dancing fervently and worshipping foreign ghosts who day and night plot to rob us, as stirs up amongst us a sad , tragic and constant urge to run from our own selves.

[@ama2349g]

Powerfully expressed! I felt every word.👏🏿 it's truly sad.

[@MrNeversweat]

French Africa real curse

[@friedeswide]

Its a wonderful story, and we salute him. However, most African leaders at that time started off like that, very humble, fair and shown love & respect to their people. They either turned to be corrupt or mad dictators when their development policies don't work out.

[@Khalid-mf3iu]

Same like Mugabe right ?

[@jaybee4577]

Well Sankara wasn’t just being humble and nice because he actually did a lot for the country in less than 4 years compared to any burkinabe president.

[@IamGodSon]

He was the real deal. His results are there for all to see.

[@LeRebel793]

blaise campaore shame on you.

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Blaise and big fish muzungu dig it

[@josemanguema3447]

pouvoir au people!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@charlienguema9713]

Thomas Sankara n'avait- il pas d'enfants?

[@werkezebo_Cherkose_show]

ገዳዩም አብሮ ሃዘን ሲቀመጥ ሳይ ገረመኝ…

[@pulltheskymusicgroup4475]

This video expose behind of what made many African leader to be corrupt ,it's extreme experction from their families, Imagine having those kind of people into your life everyday , Can u really live into your principle ?Aftican we need to stop being greedy STOP APPLY PRESSURE TO OUR SELVES AND ONES WHO SERVE PUBLIC

[@keboryou3328]

Quand vous, parler,de, Thomas Sankara, n'oubliez pas,qu'il, est,venu,par, coup deta,en,ce,qui me concerne, dans,les, année,87blaise, Compaoré, n'avais pas, Les, moyens, pour, faire,un coup deta,les, personnage,, fugitives sont,phelix ouphouet,boigni, Blaise Compaoré, François Mitterrand, Antoinette Konan,un, journaliste,belge, Encore, soit, disant,le, rescapé Alpina,Traoré, qui, revenait,du, Bénin, pour,la formation,du, gouvernement,a qui,je, fait, pas, confiance, c'est ce dernier qui, donnait,les, information,aux, commandos, qui avait une,de, destruction, saviez vous quand,1987 Blaise Compaoré, n'avais pas 6000000fcfadans sont compte, tout,était dirigé,par, ouphouet, boigni,qui,lui donna une, femme ivoirienne pour mieux dirigé, les opérations, d'assassinat de, dernier

[@keboryou3328]

Sankara parlait de la reconstitution,de,la haute volta,en, passant,pr Bouaké, mais je dis, quand Sankara fatiguait les, sont père était où,il, aurait pu lui donner, des conseils, que de dire, aujourd'hui, que Blaise Compaoré venait manger chez moi moi je ne comprends pas le peuple burkinabè, problème de djihadistes sa ne vous dit absolument rien, chaque année les gendarmes meurt,

[@ghostagee5232]

Marxiste!🙄

[@emmanuelameyaw9735]

Burkina Faso keeps breaking number of coup detats record in Africa😂. Why can't they settle matters with mere talk? Is it greed? Or each coup leader wants to fix the economy?

[@dj33degrees75]

You cannot help the poor if you're one of them.

[@mariuszhope1174]

•Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. There is no other intermediary. May Jesus Bless you, trust Him, give your life - and He will take care of it :pray Convert yourself and believe in the Gospel - Romans 10 8-10 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”[a](A) that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare(B) with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”(C) and believe(D) in your heart that God raised him from the dead,(E) you will be saved.(F) 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.