Fratricide in Burkina Faso: The Assassination of Thomas Sankara and French Africa (2007)

Original title

Fratricide au Burkina, Thomas Sankara et la Françafrique

Directed by

Didier Mauro

Genre

documentary film

Country

Burkina Faso, France

Runtime

52 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film covers the 1987 coup in Burkina Faso and the murder of its president, Thomas Sankara. It looks at the political revolution he led and his death as part of a larger story about French influence in Africa.

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What happens

Fratricide au Burkina (Thomas Sankara) est un film documentaire burkinabè réalisé par Didier Mauro et Thuy Tiên Ho, sorti en 2007. Ce film de la collection « Assassinats politiques » de Michell Noll traite de la révolution au Burkina Faso et de la disparition du capitaine Thomas Sankara, président du Burkina Faso. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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