68th birthday of Thomas Sankara

(Born 21 December 1949, Yako, Burkina Faso)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Military commander, historian, and head of state of Burkina Faso, 4 August 1983-15 October 1987, when he leads a transformative government in “post”-(European)conquest Africa which demonstrates, overwhelmingly with indelible successes, just as the resourceful Biafran resistance had breathtakingly inaugurated this breakthrough on the Africa continental scene during the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III, that the engine of societal development is located internally, in the people, themselves – not the prevailing and pervasive fraudulent developmentalism unleashed on Africa in the 1960s by the same France, Britain/other lead European World conqueror-states that had for 400 years enslaved, dispersed, occupied and immiserised Africa and its peoples; thus, Thomas Sankara’s and Biafra’s historic liberatory legacies of transformative outreaches emanating internally, not externally, forged so tenaciously, constitute contemporary Africa’s freedom path to the restoration of unfettered independence from continuing European World seizure via the latter’s imposition of local client states and overseers (for instance, the Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led notorious Nigeria genocidist and kakistocratic state), enhanced expropriation, and hardly disguised impunity

(John Coltrane Duo, “Mars” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone;  Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 22 February 1967])

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