Thomas Sankara: Burkina Faso to celebrate revolutionary icon thirty years after death

In the streets of Ouagadougou, the icon of the Burkinabe revolution is omnipresent. Assassinated thirty years ago, Thomas Sankara, the "African Che Guevara" fascinates many people as well as his mysterious death.

Thomas Sankara came to power by a coup in 1983, aged 33, shook the post-colonial era by renaming the then Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, meaning "the land of honest men ".

As the head of the National Committee of the Revolution, Thomas Sankara lived a very simple life admired by many.
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