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12 reviews for:
We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
Thomas Sankara
4.56 AVERAGE
12 reviews for:
We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
Thomas Sankara
4.56 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
We lost Thomas Sankara 36 years ago today - a profound loss for the world and for all of Africa. But as he reminds us (captured in the title of this collection), we are the heirs of the world's revolutions. It's to our immense benefit that the world's revolutions includes Burkinabè, 4 August 1983.
The speech on environmentalism and tree planting was really great, and serves as a great reminder how mobilizing forces in a socialist society can rapidly transform the environment (something we should all be studying with respect to climate change). I also thought it was really great how he talks about the French language and how he and his people have used the colonizer's language against them, as it allowed them to build solidarity with Vietnam and Caledonia.
Because Palestine is front of mind right now, I'll end with Sankara's commitment to the cause of Palestinian liberation at the United Nations:
"Finally, it fills me with indignation to think of the Palestinians, who an inhuman humanity has decided to replace with another people - a people martyred only yesterday. I think of this valiant Palestinian people, that is, these shattered families wandering across the world in search of refuge. Courageous, determined, stoic, and untiring, the Palestinians remind every human conscience of the moral necessity and obligation to respect the rights of a people."
The speech on environmentalism and tree planting was really great, and serves as a great reminder how mobilizing forces in a socialist society can rapidly transform the environment (something we should all be studying with respect to climate change). I also thought it was really great how he talks about the French language and how he and his people have used the colonizer's language against them, as it allowed them to build solidarity with Vietnam and Caledonia.
Because Palestine is front of mind right now, I'll end with Sankara's commitment to the cause of Palestinian liberation at the United Nations:
"Finally, it fills me with indignation to think of the Palestinians, who an inhuman humanity has decided to replace with another people - a people martyred only yesterday. I think of this valiant Palestinian people, that is, these shattered families wandering across the world in search of refuge. Courageous, determined, stoic, and untiring, the Palestinians remind every human conscience of the moral necessity and obligation to respect the rights of a people."
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation, War
Minor: Racism, Sexism