Title: A certain amount of madness : the life, politics and legacies of Thomas Sankara /
Authors: Murrey, Amber,; Campbell, Horace; Fall, Aziz
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sankara, Thomas.; Sankara, Thomas; Politics and government.; Burkina Faso Politics and government; Burkina Faso
Contents: Military coup, popular revolution or militarised revolution? Contextualising the revolutionary ideological courses of Thomas Sankara and the National Council of the Revolution / De-Valera N. Y. M. Botchway and Moussa Traore -- The perils of non-alignment : Thomas Sankara and the Cold War / Brian Peterson -- Thomas Sankara and the elusive revolution / Leo Zeilig -- When visions collide : Thomas Sankara, trade unions and the revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 / Craig Phelan -- Africa's Sankara : on pan-African leadership / Amber Murrey -- Who killed Thomas Sankara? / Bruno Jaffré -- 'Incentivized' self-adjustment : reclaiming Sankara's revolutionary austerity from corporate geographies of neoliberal erasure / Nicholas A. Jackson -- Madmen, Thomas Sankara and decoloniality in Africa / Ama Biney -- With the people : Sankara's humanist Marxism / Ernest Harsch -- Thomas Sankara and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem : the untimely deaths of two new generation African visionaries / Patricia Daley -- Women's freedoms are the heartbeat of Africa's future : a Sankarian imperative / Patricia McFadden -- Re-reading Sankara's philosophy for a praxeology of debt in contemporary times / Sakue-C. Yimovie -- Sankara's political ideas and pan-African solidarity : a perspective for Africa's development? / Felix Kumah-Abiwu and Olusoji Alani Odeyemi -- 'Revolution and women's liberation go together' : Thomas Sankara, gender and the Burkina Faso revolution / Namakula E. Mayanja -- Balai Citoyen : a new praxis of citizen fight with Sankarist inspirations / Zakaria Soré -- La santé avant tout : health before everything / T. D. Harper-Shipman -- Social movement struggles and political transition in Burkina Faso / Bettina Engels -- To decolonize the world : Thomas Sankara and the 'last colony' in Africa / Patrick Delices --'Daring to invent the future' : Sankara's legacy and contemporary activism in South Africa / Levi Kabwato and Sarah Chiumbu -- The academy as contested space : disappearing Sankara from the 'acceptable avant-garde' / Nicholas A. Jackson -- Art and the construction of a 'Sankara myth' : a hero trend in contemporary Burkinabè urban and revolutionary propaganda art / Sophie Bodénès Cohen -- Slanted photography : reflections on Sankara and my Peace Corps experience in Burkina Faso / Celestina Agyekum -- 'We are the children of Sankara' : memories as weapons during the Burkinabè uprisings of 2014 and 2015 / Fiona Dragstra.