Thomas Sankara

In November 2017, African and European leaders will converge in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for the Africa-EU Summit.

Introduction

What do you call people who try to make other people believe what they say but ignore the results of what they do? How about spin-sploiters?

In recent weeks, news of food crises in countries across Africa has been intensifying. From the Democratic Republic of Congo all the way down to South Africa – via Malawi, Zimbabwe, Angola and many others – low rainfall has contributed to millions more being left vulnerable.

Thomas Sankara was one of the most confident and vocal anti-imperialists of the late 20th Century. Sankara’s collective praxis, vision and legacy continue to be enormously influential in shaping anti-imperial and pan-African resistance across the world.