SonKyousanJoui [he/him] to news • 3 years agoBurkina Faso opens trial on 1987 Sankara assassinationexternal-linkmessage-square8 fedilinkarrow-up1103
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minus-squareStraight_Depth [they/them]hexbear45·3 years ago He changed the country’s name from Upper Volta, a legacy of the French colonial era, to Burkina Faso, which means “the land of honest men”. He pushed ahead with a socialist agenda of nationalisations and banned female genital mutilation, polygamy and forced marriages. This is all it takes to get the French to assassinate you link
minus-squarecommiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]hexbear5·3 years agoDon't forget planting 10 million trees to combat deforestation, halving the infant mortality rate, vaccinating over 2 million children , building 100km of railways and much more... :deeper-sadness: link
This is all it takes to get the French to assassinate you
Don't forget planting 10 million trees to combat deforestation, halving the infant mortality rate, vaccinating over 2 million children , building 100km of railways and much more... :deeper-sadness: