Sankara was and is widely popular in Burkina Faso. About his major policies I can quote from Wikipedia:
His foreign policies were centred on
anti-imperialism, with his government eschewing all foreign
aid, pushing for
odious debt reduction, nationalising all land and mineral wealth and averting the power and influence of the
International Monetary Fund and
World Bank. His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritising education with a nationwide literacy campaign and promoting public health by vaccinating 2,500,000 children against
meningitis,
yellow fever and
measles.
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Other components of his national agenda included planting over 10,000,000 trees to halt the growing
desertification of the
Sahel, doubling wheat production by redistributing land from
feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural
poll taxes and domestic rents and establishing an ambitious road and railway construction programme to "tie the nation together".
[5] On the localised level, Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary, and had over 350 communities build schools with their own labour. Moreover, his commitment to
women's rights led him to outlaw
female genital mutilation,
forced marriages and
polygamy while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school, even if pregnant.
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So Burkina Faso becames a florid and an emergent country: no "debt slavery", alimentary self-sufficiency and vaccines campaigns, education programs, land redistribution, stop to desertification, new infrastructures and promotion of women's rights. Politically Burkina Faso would be a sort of "African Cuba" (Castro was the main model of Sankara) but without American embargo. Could be it an example for others African and Third World countries? Probably yes, so things would become interesting.