Reddit reviews Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87

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Thomas Sankara's speech before the UN General Assembly Link to text

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Good books by Sankara or containing speeches/essays by him:

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle Amazon link

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987 Amazon link

We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions Amazon link

Essential additions to any Marxist-Leninist's library, or in general the library of any lover of freedom and humanity.

[Here's one covering both on Amazon, or check your library] (http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Sankara Speaks-Burkina-Revolution/dp/0873489861)

[Also refer to works and further reading in Wikipedia's article about him.] (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara)

I have a custom-printed Thomas Sankara bottle opener (made from this picture) on my keys that people always comment on when they see it (because it's gorgeous, and nobody knows who he is so they ask about him). I found about him last year after reading a quote from one of his speeches on women's liberation. If you haven't already, Thomas Sankara Speaks is an excellent read, and might be available for free here (I'm not actually sure how Open Library works).

For Trans liberation I would read Leslie Feinberg's Beyond Pink and Blue.

For Gay and Lesbian liberation I'd read Harry Hay's Radically Gay

On Feminism there's a lot. So you may want to grab Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Silvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero. Both will give you a historical and economic understanding of women's struggle.

On the African struggle I would read Thomas Sankara's The Burkina Faso Revolution.

For the Indian struggle, I suggest Anuradha Ghandy's Scripting for Change if you can find a copy somewhere.

That's it for stuff outside of the purely economic sphere.

As for fiction that intersects with communism, I suggest Iain M. Banks's Culture Series. Considering Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons. The late Banks did a tremendous job at portraying a classless, stateless, moneyless, post-scarcity society with access to cornucopia technology.

For generally entertaining Sci-Fi that'll keep you turning pages, and is also written in a non-traditional way, you have to read the Warhammer 40,000 Ciaphas Cain series. Get yourself the two omnibi Hero of the Imperium and Defender of the Imperium you'll enjoy yourself to no end. Commissar Ciaphas Cain just kicks all kinds of arse.

If you enjoy Fantasy, and want a bit with a Marxist Dragon, then I recommend Alan Dean Foster's The Spell Singer Adventures series. Specifically books 1 and 2, Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate. It's also laugh out loud funny.

If you're more into old fashioned adventures, like Conan the Barbarian kind, then you need to read Michael Moorcocks's Elric series. You can get your toes wet with Elric: The Stealer of Souls. The stories are great fun, Elric is an absolute Byronic anti-hero, he's physically weak, he has to dope himself up, he causes the downfall of his own civilisation, and yet he's a great swordsman, poet, philosopher, and so on. Very much a nihilist, very much a tragic hero.

Finally if you want to delve into the Paranormal, and specifically into the romance category (and why not, I say?). I think you should absolutely read Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series. Starting with Halfway to the Grave. Written by a woman, with a female protagonist, all from her first person perspective. It's a vampire story, and as far as the lore is concerned follows very closely to the White Wolf idea of the Masquerade. It's nothing like Twilight, you'll enjoy it and if you're like me, get hooked on the series.

Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary is pretty good and I haven't read it myself but Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87 sounds pretty good.