Carina Ray
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Carina Ray is an assistant professor of history at Fordham University. She contributed an article on “Thomas Sankara” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (2007), and a version of this article was used for her Britannica entry on this topic.
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Thomas Sankara, military officer and proponent of Pan-Africanism who was installed as president of Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) in 1983 after a military coup. He held that position until 1987, when he was killed during another coup. Sankara’s Roman Catholic parents wanted him to be a priest,…
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