[Zimbabwe Standard] Born on December 21, 1949, Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara, one of Africa's most iconic, illustrious, heroic, upright revolutionaries and promising sons, ruled Upper Volta, which he renamed Burkina Faso (the Land of Upright People) after he seized power from a repressive regime of more conservative generals, in a popularly supported military coup on August 4, 1983 at the age of 33. He overthrew controversial tyrant Jean Baptiste Quedraogo. The aim of the coup was focused on two main goals: first to eliminate e
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