Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 Genova James
Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 Genova James On August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist…
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Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 Genova James
On August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Genova's Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 recounts in detail the revolutionary government's rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African history between the era of decolonization and the dawning of neoliberal capitalism. Almost immediately following the coup's success, the small West African country--renamed Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People--gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic, cultural, and political development based on its people's needs rather than external pressures and Cold War politics. James E.
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