‘So far and yet so near’: Cuba and revolutionary Burkina Faso

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‘So far and yet so near’: Cuba and revolutionary Burkina Faso

In August 1983, a group of radical junior officers and civilian revolutionaries seized power in Upper Volta. Led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who would become widely known as ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’, Burkina Faso – as the country was renamed – embarked upon a path of radical change, breaking from its n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pritchard, Liam
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Cuba Cuban Revolution Burkina Faso Burkinabè Revolution Africa Foreign Policy Internationalism Counter-Hegemony Influence Soft Power Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (CDRs)
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/81165/

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