Sankara

Maya Tangeberg | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Prof G Sankara Pillai Award for 2022 will be given away to theatreperson Maya Tangeberg on June 22 at Rangaprabhath Theatre Complex, Alumthara, Venjaramoodu. The award instituted by Prof G…

Issued on: 23/02/2023 - 14:56 Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an…

Issued on: 26/07/2022 - 15:46Modified: 26/07/2022 - 15:49 Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of…

Issued on: 31/01/2022 - 15:01 A long-awaited trial in Burkina Faso over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is being suspended until "the restoration of the…

Issued on: 09/11/2021 - 16:47 General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not…

The murder trial of Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s iconic “father of the revolution”, is due to open on Monday, 34 years after his assassination. Fourteen people, including the country’s ex-president, Blaise Compaoré,…

Many composers and singers have given musical expression to the saint’s prolific literary creations As we celebrate Adi Sankara’s jayanthi this month, it is an opportune moment to look at the saint’s marvellous and prolific literary…