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Adele Walton
@adelewalton121
@dazed book columnist | journalist reporting on digital tech and inequality | ✍🏼agent: @meganstaunton | 📧 adelewalton99@gmail.com
Oct 15, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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On this day 33 years ago, revolutionary socialist leader and first president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated in a France-backed coup.
To honour and find out more about his incredible work and dedication to liberation and social justice, read on. 🇧🇫 Sankara was an anti-imperialist who rebuked the neocolonial interests of the West. Colonies had been an immense source of wealth and weren’t going to be given up. “It is our blood that fed the rapid development of capitalism, that made possible our current state of dependency.”