Thomas Sankara isn't Assassinated

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.[7]

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.[5]

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.
 
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