Research Catalog

Title

A certain amount of madness : the life, politics and legacies of Thomas Sankara / edited by Amber Murrey ; forword by Horace Campbell ; afterword by Aziz Salmone Fall.

Publication

• London : Pluto Press, 2018.
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Murrey, Amber
• Campbell, Horace
• Fall, Aziz

Description

xiv, 382 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Thomas Sankara was one of the most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late twentieth century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabè Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprising in 2014. This book explores Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of his synthesis of Pan-Africanist and humanist Marxist politics, as well as his approaches to gender, development, debt and decolonisation offer new insights into Sankarist political philosophies. Critical evaluations of the limitations of the revolution examine his relationship with labour unions and other aspects of his leadership style. His legacy is revealed by looking at contemporary activists, artists and politicians who draw inspiration from Sankarist thought in social movement struggles today, from South Africa to Burkina Faso.

Series Statement

Black critique

Uniform Title

Black critique.

Subject

• Sankara, Thomas
• Sankara, Thomas > Political and social views
• 1960-1987
• Decolonization > Africa > History
• Politics and government
• Burkina Faso > Politics and government > 1960-1987
• Burkina Faso > Politics and government > 1987-
• Burkina Faso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 Traore -- The perils of non-alignment : Thomas Sankara and the Cold War / Brian Peterson -- Thomas Sankara and the elusive revolution / Leo Zeilig -- When visions collide : Thomas Sankara, trade unions and the revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 / Craig Phelan -- Africa's Sankara : on pan-African leadership / Amber Murrey -- Who killed Thomas Sankara? / Bruno Jaffré -- 'Incentivized' self-adjustment : reclaiming Sankara's revolutionary austerity from corporate geographies of neoliberal erasure / Nicholas A. Jackson -- Madmen, Thomas Sankara and decoloniality in Africa / Ama Biney -- With the people : Sankara's humanist Marxism / Ernest Harsch -- Thomas Sankara and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem : the untimely deaths of two new generation African visionaries / Patricia Daley -- Women's freedoms are the heartbeat of Africa's future : a Sankarian imperative / Patricia McFadden -- Re-reading Sankara's philosophy for a praxeology of debt in contemporary times / Sakue-C. Yimovie -- Sankara's political ideas and pan-African solidarity : a perspective for Africa's development? / Felix Kumah-Abiwu and Olusoji Alani Odeyemi -- 'Revolution and women's liberation go together' : Thomas Sankara, gender and the Burkina Faso revolution / Namakula E. Mayanja -- Balai Citoyen : a new praxis of citizen fight with Sankarist inspirations / Zakaria Soré -- La santé avant tout : health before everything / T.D. Harper-Shipman -- Social movement struggles and political transition in Burkina Faso / Bettina Engels -- To decolonize the world : Thomas Sankara and the 'last colony' in Africa / Patrick Delices --'Daring to invent the future' : Sankara's legacy and contemporary activism in South Africa / Levi Kabwato and Sarah Chiumbu -- The academy as contested space : disappearing Sankara from the 'acceptable avant-garde' / Nicholas A. Jackson -- Art and the construction of a 'Sankara myth' : a hero trend in contemporary Burkinabè urban and revolutionary propaganda art / Sophie Bodénès Cohen -- Slanted photography : reflections on Sankara and my Peace Corps experience in Burkina Faso / Celestina Agyekum -- 'We are the children of Sankara' : memories as weapons during the Burkinabè uprisings of 2014 and 2015 / Fiona Dragstra.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1385

ISBN

• 9780745337579
• 9780745337586
• 0745337589
• 0745337570

OCLC

1031348007

Title

A certain amount of madness : the life, politics and legacies of Thomas Sankara / edited by Amber Murrey ; forword by Horace Campbell ; afterword by Aziz Salmone Fall.

Publisher

London : Pluto Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Black critique

Black critique.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1960-1987

Added Author

Murrey, Amber, editor.

Campbell, Horace, writer of foreword.

Fall, Aziz, writer of afterword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1385