Aziz Salmone Fall

Treachery is a cancer we must excise by combatting impunity. On May 13, 1972 while making a speech praising Kwame Nkrumah whom he lauded as the Kilimanjaro of African revolutionary consciousness, Amilcar Cabral declared:

October 15 was the 23rd anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s first president. His grave had been vandalised a few days earlier but no one was charged for the crime.

On my way by plane to the pan-African Congress being held in Munich [1], I re-read ‘Toward the African Revolution’ to fire myself up and reassure myself that this was still the right path.

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