At the 1987 Organization of African Unity Summit, he delivered a speech urging fellow heads of states not to repay any debts to Western countries.
This leader established a "day of solidarity" in which men went to the market and performed household chores to help them understand the daily plight of women. At the 1987 Organization of African Unity Summit, he delivered a speech urging fellow heads of states not to repay any debts to Western countries. He symbolically rode in a beat-up Renault 5 instead of a Mercedes, ordered millions of trees to be planted on the Sahel, and saw his country attacked by Mali in the 1985 Agacher Strip War. After overthrowing Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo in a 1983 coup, he installed a socialist regime until he was assassinated by agents of (*) Blaise Compaore. For 10 points, name this radical often called "Africa's Che Guevara," who changed his country's name from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso.
This leader established a "day of solidarity" in which men went to the market and performed household chores to help them understand the daily plight of women.
Thomas Sankara