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    Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution

    By Brian C. Rathbun

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    In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of this previously obscure West African nation surprised the world, and their struggle stands as one of the few instances of a popular 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.’ In this book, Harsch provides a compelling history of this little understood country, from the French colonial period to the Compaoré regime and the movement that finally deposed him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZed Books
    Release dateOct 15, 2017
    ISBN9781786991386
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    Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution
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    Brian C. Rathbun

    Ernest Harsch is a research scholar at the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He worked on African issues at the United Nations for more than twenty years and is the author of South Africa: White Rule, Black Revolt.

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    • 3/5
      “Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution” by Ernest Harsch is a comprehensive history of Burkina Faso. Particular attention is paid to the revolutionary years (1983-87) under Thomas Sankara, whom the author interviewed several times, and the Burkinabe Uprising in 2014 that deposed Blaise Compaoré.As I was expecting a deeper analysis of Burkina Faso, I was disappointed that most of the book consist of almost verbatim historical facts, and consequently reads more like a Wikipedia article. But considering the dearth of material available on Burkina Faso, perhaps I was expecting too much. Maybe the author’s biography of Thomas Sankara (which I also own) will be more of what I am looking for :)