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The 15 pages that link to Thomas Sankara, each with the reason it gives.

• SahelRelated: His leadership connected modern politics in the Sahel to debates over sovereignty and development.

• Burkina FasoRelated: His government renamed Upper Volta Burkina Faso and pursued sweeping reforms.

• Great Green WallRelated: His tree-planting campaigns are often cited as an earlier African precedent for the vision.

• FESPACORelated: His government supported African cultural sovereignty and elevated the festival's public profile.

• FrançafriqueCompared with: His stance offered a sharp challenge to the close alignments associated with Françafrique.

• Political martyrdomBroader topic: His death helped sustain his image as a symbol of anti-imperialism and social transformation.

• Mossi peopleRelated: His politics transformed the national setting in which Mossi identity is expressed.

• Blaise CompaoréRelated: Compaoré was Sankara’s close ally before the 1987 coup that killed him.

• OuagadougouRelated: His government renamed the country Burkina Faso and governed from Ouagadougou.

• Mathieu KérékouCompared with: Both adopted Marxist-Leninist politics, but Sankara led a neighboring revolutionary government.

• History of Burkina FasoRelated: His government renamed the country and pursued a radical transformation of state policy.

• Maurice YaméogoRelated: His later government rejected the name Upper Volta and recast the country's political identity.

• Agacher Strip WarRelated: Sankara led Burkina Faso during the fighting and had taken power two years earlier.

• Ibrahim TraoréRelated: Traoré invokes Sankara's legacy to frame his project of sovereignty and national renewal.

• Land reform movementRelated: His government tied land policy to efforts to increase food production and rural autonomy.