AfriDocs will also be screening Captain Thomas Sankara, a film that provides the political history of Burkina Faso, and in light of the recent coup and other developments in Burkina Faso, is more relevant than ever. The film is produced from archival footage of Sankara between 1983 and 1987.

Sankara – ‘Africa's Che Guevara’ - was a Marxist, anti-imperialist revolutionary who, in four years in power, doubled the number of children in schools, reduced infant mortality, redistributed land from feudal landlords to peasants and planted 10-million trees that still help shade Ouagadougou, the capital. He was deposed in 1987 by his best friend and colleague, the recently ousted President Campaoré, setting the stage for the most recent developments in the country.

The people’s revolution from Thursday, 30 October 2014, was recently put in danger by another coup last month, that the now arrested coup leader General Diendere admits was ‘the biggest mistake’.

AfriDocs screens every Thursday at 19:55 on [ED], channel 190 and GOtv, channel 65 on DStv across sub-Saharan Africa. It repeats on Sundays.

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