– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets. – He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers. – He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights – He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education. – He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid – He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification – He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987. – He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara” Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.
Subjects History Chief executive Territorial hierarchy Form and rules of government Traditional history External relations Ethnic stratification Status, role, and prestige Territorial hierarchy Lineages Sacred objects and places Family Marriage Community structure culture Mossi HRAF PubDate 2009 Region Africa Sub Region Western Africa Document Type Book Evaluation Ethnologist-5 Analyst John Beierle 1965-1968 Coverage Date 1481-1957 Coverage Place Burkina Faso Notes Elliott Percival Skinner Includes bibliographical references(p.After renaming his country to Burkina Faso, here’s Thomas Sankara’s accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87). For lack of available information on the 'Ninisi,' an aboriginal people living in the Upper Volta area prior to the coming of the Mossi, information on this group has been subsumed under Mossi (FA28). The last three chapters of this work present a culture history of Mossi-European relations, and the resulting changes taking place in Mossi political structure as the result of the European conquest of these people. Additional information may also be found on law and judicial procedures, economic foundations, and religion and government. Particular emphasis in this source is on the Mogho Naba (the supreme chief or emperor of the Mossi), his household, ministers, and various territorial chiefs (e.g., provincial, district and village chiefs), and the various levels of interaction between them. The field work was further supplemented by data gathered from various government documents and ethnographies on the Mossi. The author gathered his data in the Upper Volta Republic between November 1955 and January 1957, a period during which many important political changes were taking place in this region, and most of the field work was done in the territory formerly included in the kingdom of Ouagadougou, although short visits were also made to the Yatenga, Tenkodogo, and Boussouma regions. AbstractThis document presents an intensive study of the political development of the Mossi people, a Sudanese negroid group occupying the Republic of the Upper Volta, West Africa.
Book The Mossi of the Upper Volta: the political development of a Sudanese people Stanford University Press
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