Edited by Amber Murray

Thomas Sankara was one of the most confident and vocal anti-
imperialists of the late twentieth century. His life and political praxis continue to be significant in shaping and inspiring youth activism and resistance across the African continent and beyond.

A Certain Amount of Madness draws together contemporary scholarship on Sankara’s life and political praxis with work on the contemporary resistance movements in Burkina Faso and elsewhere that draw inspiration from Sankara’s politics. Part of the intention of this volume is to pay more serious attention to Sankara’s legacy (multifaceted, ambiguous and disputed) and afterlives together with reconsiderations of his innovative political praxis. The combining of these previously divergent projects allows for a more complete understanding of Sankara’s on-going relevance at the same time that our examinations avoid hagiography or hero worship.

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