Thirty-four years after his death, the murder trial of Thomas Sankara opened in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou on Monday, October 11. Sankara, president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987 alongside 12 others, is an iconic figure in the history of the African continent. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the Sankara years in pictures.
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