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get from Gaia and fans! On October 15, 1987, exactly 20 years ago, Thomas Sankara was assassinated, President of Burkina Faso. And perhaps, in Africa accustomed and resigned to be ruled by stooges of the West by corrupt elites and their backs to the dictates of international economic institutions, was expected to go out this way. Why Sankara was a true revolutionary who had at heart the welfare and progress of his people and Africa as a whole. On August 4, 1983, in Upper Volta, Sankara came to power in a bloodless coup, without bloodshed. One of the first acts of his government is significant what's to come: the country, a former French colony, now abandoned colonial name and became Burkina Faso, "land of upright men." And the moral integrity was one of the pillars of its activities, and from there he went to cut the bridges with the past. In that year the country's infant mortality rate reached 19% (every five babies born, no one came to take a year), the literacy rate to 2%, life expectancy was only 44 years, there was one doctor per 50 thousand inhabitants. In this situation the first cuts were to Sankara's ruling class: the blue cars for senior civil servants were replaced by cars, public works were required to participation of the ministers, he lived in a house in Ouagadougou, the capital of the country, that nothing was different from the others, Sankara and his staff always travel in economy class and ranks low in diplomatic visits. In just four years the government managed to achieve momentous social reforms and changed the face of the country struggled to enhance the figure of the farmers by giving them more power, put the nature of its priorities, trying to stop the advance of the desert through reforestation, was a proponent of a fight to the abuse and he nurtured a particular attention to the women (his government included a large number of women, condemned female circumcision and polygamy and promoted contraception), in a short time, 60 percent of children were vaccinated against measles, meningitis and yellow fever (and this, according to UNICEF was one of the best companies ever made in Africa), the percentage of school children went to third. The economy revitalization, public finances were managed prudently, corruption was reduced to very low levels (an almost unique case in Africa) and all the main indices of quality of life - infant mortality, average age, schooling - improved. Even at international level was an innovator and pioneer: he called for disarmament, called for measures to promote employment, environmental protection, peace between peoples, while, in a new colonialism, multinational companies invaded the rich lands of Africa and the Northern states of the world trade conditions imposed that prevented the development of Africa, sandwiched between external debt and natural disasters, invited African countries not to pay the foreign debt in order to concentrate efforts on economic policy to bridge the delay imposed by decades of colonial rule and even cultural. In 1986, during the works of the 25th session of the Organization of African Unity said very simply: We are strangers to the creation of this debt and therefore we should not pay for it. [...] The debt in its current form is a skillfully organized colonial reconquest. [...] If we do not pay, providers of capital will not die, we're sure, but if we pay, we will die, can we be so sure. He pushed strongly towards a process of union of all the states of the continent, which had become a cohesive political entity and respected internationally. On another occasion, before the United Nations, said: I speak on behalf of the mothers in our impoverished countries see their children die of malaria or diarrhea, not knowing the simple means that science does not offer the multinationals themselves, preferring to invest in laboratories or in cosmetic plastic surgery for the benefit of the whim of a few men and women whose charm is threatened by excessive intake calories in their meals, so abundant and regular dizzying to us in the Sahel. A modern and extremely relevant speech. That is Africa's Thomas Sankara and the African cultural heritage is a lesson for all, to lead us to a more harmonious and more balanced life, to build a "sustainable society" that has the center of social relations and relations not only economic. It is hardly surprising that the year of his death continue to rise across the world political organizations and associations that emphasize the need to pursue his work. The Bibliothèque project, promoted by the parents would certainly like Thomas Sankara, and we are especially pleased that this project will be implemented precisely in Burkina Faso.
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