Mediated Sankarism: Reinventing a Historical Figure to Reimagine the Future

by Lassane Ouedraogo Abstract Thomas Sankara contributed significantly to the formation of the modern national identity of post-independent Burkina Faso before his assassination in 1987. This essay uses discourse analysis to examine the emergence of Sankara’s ideology also known as Sankarism and his praxis in the Burkinabe public discourse. It discussed different creative ways that […]