Thomas Sankara

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara Yako December 21 1949 Ouagadougou October 15 1987 was a military officer Marxist revolutionary PanAfricanist and political leader of Burkina Faso He was a popular captain and the Prime Minister when the country was still called the Republic of Upper Volta Shortly thereafter he became the fifth Voltan president since the liberation from French rule and the first president of Burkina Faso