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38 years ago today, Africa lost a legend 💔🇧🇫 Africa's most fearless revolutionary, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated in a hail of bullets. Sankara was the President and founding father of Burkina Faso, the Land of the Upright People. His killers dissolved his body in acid. One of them took his golden tooth as a souvenir to France. Let that sink in. Sankara was a fearless revolutionary who had cracked the Pan-African code. Like Gaddafi, he dared to dream of an Africa that belonged to Africans. An Africa free from imperialism, exploitation and foreign domination. He dreamed of a continent where Africans would no longer be spectators in their own future. A continent that could feed its people, protect its resources, educate its children and build its prosperity on the strength of its own citizens. Sankara vowed to protect his country's wealth from plunder by France and other imperialist powers. And he did not keep it a secret. He questioned the burden of foreign debt and argued that African countries needed the courage to challenge economic arrangements that undermined their independence. And for all these “crimes”, he had to die. They murdered the man, desecrated his remains, and tried to erase his dream. But 38 years later, Africa still speaks his name. Rest in power, Thomas Sankara. The revolution lives on. ✊🏿💔🇧🇫