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MY AFRIKA

but was later imprisoned. Efforts to

free him led to the 1983 coup d’état,
in which he became president. San-
kara renamed the country Burkina
Faso and launched an ambitious
socioeconomic programme which

included a nationwide literacy cam-
paign, land redistribution to peas-
ants, railway and road construction
and the outlawing of female genital Burkina Faso opposition supporters protest in Ouagadougou on Oct.
mutilation, forced marriages and po- 28, 2014 against plans to let the long-serving president extend his rule
lygamy. Sankara was overthrown and beyond 30 years.(ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
killed in the 1987 coup d’état led by
Blaise Compaoré – deteriorating re- someone else, he stops to live out things they did and still do in order

lations with former coloniser France truth and thereby must suffer for to steal your identity and natural re-
and its ally the Ivory Coast were the living out lies. There is boldness of sources. But in all of this, you are still
speech and strength of character that the one who is counted righteous,
reason given for the coup. (Source:
comes with originality and a connec- blessed and loved because your des-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Burkina_Faso) tion to ones true identity. tiny demands such uprightness and
We definitely live in an age watered blessedness. I bless you from my

Righteousness exalts a nation but down by falsehood, false identity, heart and I open the door of the
sin is a reproach to that nation. pseudo-lifestyles that only under- blessing that your father Thomas
mines truth and integrity. But this Sankara gave to you. You are blessed
We have seen for many years the
many trials and the pain of the peo- does not have to continue to be, for beyond reproach. Justice shall ones
ple of Burkina Faso in the hands of when a people begin to know and again prevail in your corridors of
the leaders that came through ei- also see that the path they had been power. For right in the midst of you
on is not where they should be on, shall rise forth those who will take
ther coups or any other means. But
then there needs to be a change of on the torch of liberty, vision, up-
the question is, could it be that the
people of Burkina Faso have walked route and a new path set. rightness and by the workings of the
away from the truth of their identity good Lord, they will lead your nation
as a land of upright people like their Prayer for Burkina Faso again in the path of uprightness.
Beloved people of Burkina Faso, a
“father” Thomas Sankara named
people so graciously blessed and Peace!
them, just like all Afrikans are suffer-
ing because they have walked away raised beyond reproach, your destiny
from the original identity found in and purpose is beyond the “slavery”, Note:
their original name Alkebulan which pain, poverty that has been attrib- We did a video recently on Thomas
uted to you by those whose souls Sankara on our YouTube channel.
means Mother of the Earth and their
have been darkened. They subjected You can watch from the link below:
current name Afrika which means
Womb of Soul? It could as well be. a large part of your independent days https://www.youtube.com/
For when a person loses his original to torture, humiliation, fear, violence watch?v=f9kfmLDLyZU&t=395s
identity and takes up the identity of through coups and the many other

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