This file photograph taken on August 4, 1985, shows then President of Burkina Faso Captain Thomas Sankara, as he reviews troops in a street of Ouagadougou, during celebrations of the second anniversary of the Burkina Faso’s revolution.Sankara was killed in October 1987, in a coup d’etat in which President Blaise Compaoré, his former comrade-in-arms, took power. In 1983, Compaoré helped his boyhood friend seize power from then President Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
His charismatic popularity resonated throughout the world. He became a regular guest in regional and world forums like ECOWAS, Non Align Movement, United Nations etc. The major plank of his administration was the nationalization of the key sectors of the economy and mobilization of Marxist tendencies in the evolution and reconstruction of Burkina Faso.
He spent most of his time trying to reclaim land devastated by desert encroachment by planting 10 million trees. He built more roads and 100km of rail without external borrowing. The GDP of the country doubled within two years of Sankara in power . However, towards the middle of 1983, his policies have started attracting criticism. In 1984, several individuals accused of treason, were tried and executed. 2,500 teachers were dismissed and replaced by untrained graduate teachers. Popular Revolutionary Tribunals that he set up resorted to arbitrary judicial activism and political persecutions.
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