powerofafrica_ on May 17, 2024: "#ThisDayInHistory May 18 On this day in 2020, a statue of Burkina Faso🇧🇫 pan-Africanist icon Thomas Sankara, President from 1983 until his assassination in 1987, is unveiled in Ouagadougou. The statue unveiled was a new one after people had complained the first version did not resemble Sankara. Sculptor Jean Luc Bambara went back to the drawing board after criticism that the statue's facial features did not match Sankara's. Thomas Sankara - an icon for m...
