"I come from a country of seven million children, women and men who refuse to die of ignorance, hunger and thirst. My ambition is to speak on behalf of my people, on behalf of the disinherited of the world. And say the reasons we have to revolt."

Thomas Sankara

UN General Assembly, 1984

Under the leadership of Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa mobilized peasants, workers, artisans, women and youth to: ¤ conduct literacy and vaccination campaigns; ¤ dig wells, plant trees, build dams and housing; ¤ combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations in the countryside; ¤ free themselves from imperialist rule and show solidarity with all those engaged in the same struggle throughout the world.

In these speeches and interviews, given from 1983 until his assassination in 1987, Thomas Sankara speaks for the people of Burkina Faso and Africa and as a remarkable revolutionary leader of workers, farmers, and youth around the world.