Daouda Traoré, retired colonel major and vice-president of the international Thomas Sankara Memorial Committee, was delighted that the boulevard would now carry the name of"the world's most famous Burkinabé citizen".
This is a"name that drapes this boulevard with the seal of dignity and sovereignty of our people, in keeping with our history, our spirit and our soul marked by anti-imperialist convictions," he said."In Africa and among the diaspora we see a new movement of appropriating political identity based on sovereignty," he told RFI.Burkina Faso military rulers rename major boulevard after revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara on anniversary of his assassination.
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