- October 15, 1987 The tragic destiny of Thomas Sankara is related to the struggle for the advent of a social democracy. This struggle could not please the "Mafiafrique" made up of the groups of business peoples and their collaborators who control Africa. Then, he has to be exterminated. They found the armed hand in the local relays and the killing machine get going. Feedback on the causes of the sad & dark Thursday. By Cheriff M. SY "A the favour of the meanders of the history, this autocrat rose with the head of our Revolution for better choking it internally. This high treason was illustrated by the deride of all organisational principles, the various disav…