Foreword by Horace G. Campbell AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Amber MurreyPart I: Life and Revolution1. Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?: Contextualising the Revolutionary Ideological Courses of Thomas Sankara and the National Council of the Revolution - De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Moussa Traore2. The Perils of Non-Alignment: Thomas Sankara and the Cold War - Brian Peterson 3. Thomas Sankara and the Elusive Revolution - Leo Zeilig4.
When Visions Collide: Thomas Sankara, Trade Unions and the Revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 - Craig Phelan5. Africa's Sankara: On Pan-African Leadership - Amber Murrey6. Who Killed Thomas Sankara? - Bruno Jaffré7. 'Incentivized' Self-Adjustment: Reclaiming Sankara's Revolutionary Austerity from Corporate Geographies of Neoliberal Erasure - Nicholas A. JacksonPart II: Political Philosophies 8. Madmen, Thomas Sankara and Decoloniality in Africa - Ama Biney9. With the People: Sankara's Humanist Marxism - Ernest Harsch 10. Thomas Sankara & Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem: The Untimely Deaths of Two New Generation African Visionaries - Patricia Daley11.
Women's Freedoms are the Heartbeat of Africa's Future: A Sankarian Imperative - Patricia McFadden12. Re-Reading Sankara's Philosophy for a Praxeology of Debt in Contemporary Times - Sakue-C. Yimovie13. Sankara's Political Ideas and Pan-African Solidarity: A Perspective for Africa's Development? - Felix Kumah-Abiwu and Olusoji Alani Odeyemi14. 'Revolution and Women's Liberation Go Together': Thomas Sankara, Gender and the Burkina Faso Revolution - Namakula E. MayanjaPart III: Legacies15. Balai Citoyen: A New Praxis of Citizen Fight with Sankarist Inspirations - Zakaria Soré16. La Santé Avant Tout: Health Before Everything - T.
D. Harper-Shipman17. Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso - Bettina Engles18. To Decolonize the World: Thomas Sankara and the 'Last Colony' in Africa - Patrick Delices19. 'Daring to Invent the Future': Sankara's Legacy and Contemporary Activism in South Africa - Levi Kabwato and Sarah ChiumbuPart IV: Contestations and Homages 20. The Academy as Contested Space: Disappearing Sankara from the 'Acceptable Avant-Garde' - Nicholas A. Jackson21. Art and the Construction of a 'Sankara Myth': A Hero Trend in Contemporary Burkinabè Urban & Revolutionary Propaganda Art - Sophie Bodénès Cohen22.
Slanted Photography: Reflections on Sankara and My Peace Corps Experience in Burkina Faso - Celestina Agyekum23. 'We Are the Children of Sankara': Memories as Weapons during the Burkinabe Uprisings of 2014 and 2015 - Fiona DragstraAfterword by Aziz Salmone FallNotes on Contributors Index.