| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Black critique
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Black critique.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders. |
| Contents |
Foreword: The Life and Legacy of Thomas Sankara / Horace G. Campbell; Acknowledgements; Introduction / Amber Murrey; Part I: Life and Revolution; 1. 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; 2. The Perils of Non-Alignment: Thomas Sankara and the Cold War / Brian Peterson; 3. Thomas Sankara and the Elusive Revolution / Leo Zeilig; 4. When Visions Collide: Thomas Sankara, Trade Unions and the Revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 / Craig Phelan |
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5. Africa's Sankara: On Pan-African Leadership / Amber Murrey; 6. Who Killed Thomas Sankara? / Bruno Jaffré; 7. 'Incentivised' Self-Adjustment: Reclaiming Sankara's Revolutionary Austerity from Corporate Geographies of Neoliberal Erasure / Nicholas A. Jackson; Part II: Political Philosophies; 8. Madmen, Thomas Sankara and Decoloniality in Africa / Ama Biney; 9. With the People: Sankara's Humanist Marxism / Ernest Harsch; 10. Thomas Sankara and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem: The Untimely Deaths of Two New Generation African Visionaries / Patricia Daley |
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11. Women's Freedoms are the Heartbeat of Africa's Future: A Sankarian Imperative / Patricia McFadden; 12. Re-reading Sankara's Philosophy for a Praxeology of Debt in Contemporary Times / Sakue-C. Yimovie; 13. Sankara's Political Ideas and Pan-African Solidarity: A Perspective for Africa's Development? / Felix Kumah-Abiwu and Olusoji Alani Odeyemi; 14. 'Revolution and Women's Liberation Go Together': Thomas Sankara, Gender and the Burkina Faso Revolution / Namakula E. MayanjaPart III: Legacies; 15. Balai Citoyen: A New Praxis of Citizen Fight with Sankarist Inspirations / Zakaria Soré |
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16. La Santé Avant Tout: Health Before Everything / T.D. Harper-Shipman; 17. Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso / Bettina Engels; 18. To Decolonise the World: Thomas Sankara and the 'Last Colony' in Africa / Patrick Delices; 19. 'Daring to Invent the Future': Sankara's Legacy and Contemporary Activism in South Africa / Levi Kabwato and Sarah ChiumbuPart IV: Contestations and Homages; 20. The Academy as Contested Space: Disappearing Sankara from the 'Acceptable Avant-Garde' / Nicholas A. Jackson |
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21. Art and the Construction of a 'Sankara Myth': A Hero Trend in Contemporary Burkinabe Urban and Revolutionary Propaganda Art / Sophie Bodenes Cohen; 22. Slanted Photography: Reflections on Sankara and My Peace Corps Experience in Burkina Faso / Celestina Agyekum; 23. 'We Are the Children of Sankara': Memories as Weapons during the Burkinabè Uprisings of 2014 and 2015 / Fiona Dragstra; Afterword / Aziz Salmone Fall; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sankara, Thomas.
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Sankara, Thomas. |
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Burkina Faso -- Politics and government -- 1960-1987.
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Burkina Faso. |
| Chronological Term |
1960-1987 |
| Subject |
Politics and government. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Murrey, Amber, editor.
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Campbell, Horace, writer of foreword.
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Fall, Aziz, writer of afterword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Certain amount of madness. London : Pluto Press, 2018 9780745337579 (OCoLC)1031348007 |
| ISBN |
9781786802248 (electronic book) |
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1786802244 (electronic book) |
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0745337570 |
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9780745337579 |
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0745337589 |
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9780745337586 |
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0745337570 |
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9780745337579 |
| Standard No. |
9780745337579 |
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