• Mathijs Cazemier

The excessive reporting of the interplay between non-African powers in the Sahel—however crucial it may be to understand regional dynamics—betrays a Western-centric bias in international news coverage.

• Lassane Ouedraogo

September's coup is Burkina Faso's second of the year, and its another one with popular support. Why did it happen?

• Lassane Ouedraogo

A jihadist insurrection has claimed 40% of Burkina Faso’s national territory. The response by military-political elites has been to add to the instability and crisis by fomenting coups.

• Yarri Kamara

On justice, impunity and ridicule: the historic outcome of the 2022 trial in Burkina Faso against Thomas Sankara’s killers.

• William Shoki

This week, AIAC talks with Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo on what's behind the coup in Burkina Faso.

• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk we discuss the start of Thomas Sankara's assassination trial, which confirms that for many Burkinabes, his spirit very much lives on.

• Brian Peterson

An interview with Brian Peterson, author of a new biography of Thomas Sankara. Peterson positions 1980s Burkina Faso as counterhegemonic to the neoliberal transition then.

• Lassane Ouedraogo

Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.

• Benjamin Talton

Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.

• Diana Ayeh

In Burkina Faso's mines, the differences between local and foreign workers are significant, especially what they get paid.

• Yarri Kamara

October 30 marks the 5th anniversary of the start of Burkina Faso's October 2014 insurrection. We revisit and assess those events.

• Daniel Eizenga

Burkina Faso's security crisis and its new status quo of permanent military intervention will test the resilience of its political institutions.

• Joeva Rock

Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.

• Boukary Sawadogo

Artists played central roles in the protest movement that ended dictatorship in Burkina Faso.

• Aboubakar Sanogo

Burkinabe filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo was a singular talent in African cinema. His films championed marginalized people and cultures.

• Ernest Harsch

Sankara’s enduring popularity rests not only on his words, however much they resonate with today’s disenchanted and angry youth. It is also based on his deeds.

• Oumar Ba

Should Africans care for French President Emmanuel Macron's "Africa Speech" in Ouagadougou?

• D.S. Battistoli

The judgment that Sankara was a hero rests in part on what was politically possible in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s.

• Sean Jacobs

Burkina Faso is finally beginning to do right by the memory of revuolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara.

• Boima Tucker

For rapper, Art Melody, hip hop is a philosophy, one that can’t be sold out for fame, money, or even politics.