A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (Black Critique)

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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. Edited By Amber Murrey ; Foreword By Horace Campbell ; Afterword By Aziz Salmone Fall. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.