THOMAS SANKARA'S IDEAS SPREAD AT NIGER'S REVOLUTIONARY TRAINING CENTRE

A revolutionary Pan-African political education centre was inaugurated on 15 April in Niamey, Niger, to educate students as part of the broader attempt in Africa's Sahel region to fortify the revolution that kicked off a few years ago with people-backed coups d'état that ousted Western-aligned leaders.

The Thomas Sankara Centre for African Liberation and Unity, run by @burkinabooks (IG), is the second location of its kind.

After developing a similar library and political education centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the project has expanded to work with Niger's student population in Niamey. 

The centres aim to increase knowledge of Pan-Africanism, socialism, anti-imperialism, and women's emancipation struggles in the Sahel to train cadre who are ideologically and organisationally prepared to defend, advance, and unify the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Africa's newest self-determining alliance.

African Stream journalist Inemesit Richardson, also president of @burkinabooks, was on site for the inauguration.

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