Inem Richardson, journalist with African Stream, co-founder of the Thomas Sankara Center/Burkina Books (Centre Thomas Sankara Pour La Libération et L’Unité Africain), sits down with me to discuss the Burkinabe peoples wrestles against colonial and imperialist West, such as France, in the past 4 decades.  Inem is also A member and cadre of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party. She is originally from The Bay Area in Northern California, but she currently lives in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Burkina Books is a Pan-African library and political education center. 

Inem gives us a detailed account of the political and socio-economic struggle of the Burkinabe people from the days of that great son of Africa and Pan-Africanist, Captain Thomas Sankara, until right before the current leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traore. She eloquently ties into the conversation the external relations created by Sankara’s leadership with other revolutionary countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, among others. This discussion is inspired by her article - Burkina Faso: La Patrie ou la Mort… Venceremos - published by Hood Communist, an online Pan-african Media. This episode is part one of two episodes. The second episode will cover where this one leaves off all the way to the present and prevailing socio-economic and political conditions in Burkina Faso under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traore. We anticipate covering a lot about the Sahel with Inem in the near future.

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