• Juice@midwest.social
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    12 hours ago

    Does anyone know of any legitimate criticisms of Sankara? Or even illegitimate ones that can be disproven? My exposure to him is fairly minimal, but everything ive heard about him is just over the top positive.

    I’m not trying to cut down decolonizers either, but often criticisms are reflective of the material obstacles and struggles that a leader or movement faced. I’m sure there are some good histories out there and I would take any recommendations people have. But just given my own nature, ive found I can get into a particular history better by starting with the negative.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      Had he survived, he would have had to struggle against counter-revolutionaries, resulting in similar allegations of authoritarianism that other AES leaders that do survive go through.

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        He was big into Ubuntu (the philosophy, not the distro) wasn’t he? My limited understanding is that it goes hand in hand with liberation theology.