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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers a unique, critical appraisal of Sankara and explores why he generated such enthusiasm and hope in Burkina Faso and beyond, why he was such a polarizing figure, how his rivals seized power from him, and why T-shirts sporting his image still appear on the streets today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa</i> offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting for women's rights, direct forms of democracy, economic sovereignty, and environmental justice. </p><p>Drawing on government archival sources and over a hundred interviews with Sankara's family members, friends, and closest revolutionary colleagues, Brian J. Peterson details Sankara's political career and rise to power, as well as his assassination at age 37 in 1987, in a plot led by his close friend Blaise Compaoré. </p><p><i>Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War</i> Africa offers a unique, critical appraisal of Sankara and explores why he generated such enthusiasm and hope in Burkina Faso and beyond, why he was such a polarizing figure, how his rivals seized power from him, and why T-shirts sporting his image still appear on the streets today.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i>Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa</i> is one of the most fully realized biographies of a modern African politicalgure in recent years, and a striking portrayal not just of this fascinating and ultimately tragic states-man but of an entire political era on the continent.</p>-- "New York Review of Books"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Brian J. Peterson is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Union College. He is author of <i>Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960</i>.</p>

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