If Latin Americans worship Che Guevara, African people also have their symbols – In his works, Oldometer 49-50 shirt. Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso president. Before Nelson Mandela, Sankara was considered to be Africa’s greatest leader ever before, respected and often called by his Western rivals “Che Guevara Africa”. Briefly talk about the context of Burkina Faso country. In fact, the country did not have such a name until Thomas Sankara himself named it. It is a very meaningful name that will be discussed later. Before that, the country was a French colony in West Africa, called the French West African federation and had no official name. In 1958, the French returned independence to this country, named the Upper Volta Republic, based on the position of the upper Volta river.
