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Revolutionary Silenced: How Sankara's Coup Ended Africa's Boldest Experiment
On October 15, 1987, gunfire erupted in Ouagadougou. Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary who had renamed Upper Volta to Burkina Faso—'Land of Incorruptible People'—lay dead. His former ally Blaise Compaoré had seized power...
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The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. -
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale create the Black Panther Party in the United States.
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A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara. -
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island. -
The United States returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.