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Ouaga! Hommage à l’homme du 4 aout

Ouaga! Hommage à l’homme du 4 aout

Ouaga! Hommage à l'homme du 4 aout

| IFFR 2010

An expressionist reflection on a country’s future. The ‘l’homme du 4 aout’ is former President Sankara, the ‘African Che Guevara’ who changed the name of Upper Volta on 4 August 1984 to Burkina Faso. His Marxist mission failed, the country is still searching.

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