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How effective were Thomas Sankara's reforms in Upper Volta/Burkina Faso? Did he really improve or make progress with the country's economic situation? And was his rule genuinely free and democratic, or was he just another communist dictator styling himself as a democratically elected president?

by /u/DuBois41st in /r/AskHistorians

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