The dream is shattered, democracy on the continent. Blandine Sankara Speaks, sister of the murdered father of the revolution in Burkina Faso during the coup of 1987.
On August 5, Burkina Faso celebrates 50 years of independence from France. "It should be an opportunity to ask what we really won in this half century and where the independence, since we are still so closely tied to our colonizer. So says Blandine Sankara, Thomas Sankara's sister, the father of the Burkinabe Revolution murdered during the coup of 1987. The memory of Sankara is still very strong in Africa: in just 4 years of presidency, from '83 to '87, the 'captain' was able to complete a program of education, vaccination for children, several economic reforms to ensure ' financial autonomy and food carried on the fight with force against rampant corruption. His revolution is considered one of the best examples of 'decolonization'. Of the great hopes of the eighties, unfortunately, little remains. The request for an international inquiry into the death of Sankara has been filed by the Commission for Human Rights United Nations in 2008. According to several witnesses among the accomplices of the murder there would be Blaise Compaoré, who took power after the coup and is still the President of Burkina Faso.
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