Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest and Revolution

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In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime in their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it imaginable for a transitional government to prepare free and fair elections the next year. In doing so, the people of this in the past difficult to understand West African nation surprised the world, and their struggle stands as some of the few instances of a well-liked democratic uprising succeeding in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa.
 
For over three decades, Ernest Harsch has researched and reported from Burkina Faso, interviewing subjects ranging from local democratic activists to revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, the man once dubbed “Africa’s Che Guevara.” On this book, Harsch provides a compelling and up-to-date history of this little understood country, from the French colonial period to the Compaoré regime and the movement that after all deposed him.
 

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