A certain amount of madness : the life, politics and legacies of Thomas Sankara / edited by Amber Murrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murrey, Amber, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sankara, Thomas.

Decolonization--Africa--History.

Decolonization.

Political and social views.

Politics and government.

Burkina Faso--Politics and government--1960-1987.

Burkina Faso.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, 2018.

Summary:

Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Horace G. Campbell

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Life and Revolution

1 Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?: Contextualising the Revolutionary Ideological Courses of Thomas Sankara and the National Council of the Revolution

2 The Perils of Non-Alignment: Thomas Sankara and the Cold War

3 Thomas Sankara and the Elusive Revolution

4 When Visions Collide: Thomas Sankara, Trade Unions and the Revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987

5 Africa's Sankara: On Pan-African Leadership

6 Who Killed Thomas Sankara?

7 'Incentivized' Self-Adjustment: Reclaiming Sankara's Revolutionary Austerity from Corporate Geographies of Neoliberal Erasure

Part II Political Philosophies

8 Madmen, Thomas Sankara and Decoloniality in Africa

9 With the People: Sankara's Humanist Marxism

10 Thomas Sankara and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem: The Untimely Deaths of Two New Generation African Visionaries

11 Women's Freedoms are the Heartbeat of Africa's Future: A Sankarian Imperative

12 Re-Reading Sankara's Philosophy for a Praxeology of Debt in Contemporary Times

13 Sankara's Political Ideas and Pan-African Solidarity: A Perspective for Africa's Development?

14 'Revolution and Women's Liberation Go Together': Thomas Sankara, Gender and the Burkina Faso Revolution

Part III Legacies

15 Balai Citoyen: A New Praxis of Citizen Fight with Sankarist Inspirations

16 La Santé Avant Tout: Health before Everything

17 Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso

18 To Decolonize the World: Thomas Sankara and the 'Last Colony' in Africa

19 'Daring to Invent the Future': Sankara's Legacy and Contemporary Activism in South Africa

Part IV Contestations and Homages.

20 The Academy as Contested Space: Disappearing Sankara from the 'Acceptable Avant-Garde'

21 Art and the Construction of a 'Sankara Myth': A Hero Trend in Contemporary Burkinabè Urban and Revolutionary Propaganda Art

22 Slanted Photography: Reflections on Sankara and My Peace Corps Experience in Burkina Faso

23 'We Are the Children of Sankara': Memories as Weapons during the Burkinabè Uprisings of 2014 and 2015

Afterword

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-78680-225-2

1-78680-224-4

OCLC:

1036790344