Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara

Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara (born February 23, 1959 in Toessin , Passoré ) is a politician from Burkina Faso ( Upper Volta until 1984 ). Since 2000 he has been party president of the Union pour la renaissance / Mouvement sankariste .

Life

Sankara was born in Toessin, a small village near the provincial capital Yako , in 1959 . After successfully completing his basic studies in Ouagadougou , he continued his legal studies in Abidjan , where he successfully completed a post-graduate degree in private law in 1987. In 1988 he was admitted to the bar. He then left West Africa and worked as an intern in Paris, among other places. In 1992 he returned to Burkina Faso and became a member of the Burkina Faso Bar Association. Since 1994 he has run his own law firm in Ouagadougou.

Political career

Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara became politically active for the first time with the Sankaras Revolution in 1984, after which he took over the presidency of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution ( Comité de Défense de la Révolution , CDR) at the law faculty of the University of Ouagadougou . When he left Burkina Faso in 1986 to continue his studies, he resigned from this position.

He became visibly politically active again in 1998 after the murder of Norbert Zongo , a well-known opposition journalist. In September 2000 he was one of the co-founders of the small party Convention des Partis Sankaristes , CPS, to which he only belonged for a short time. In November 2000 he founded what is now the most important Sankarist party, the Union pour la renaissance / Mouvement sankariste , which he heads to this day. For this party he was elected to the National Assembly in 2002. In 2005 he resigned as a parliamentarian and was run as a candidate for the 2005 presidential election. With just under five percent of the vote, he came second behind incumbent and re-elected President Blaise Compaoré . In the presidential elections of November 21, 2010, Sankara landed with 6.34 percent in third place behind the incumbent Blaise Compaoré and Hama Arba Diallo of the PDS.

Private

Sankara is married to Olga Sankara, a gynecologist who now works as a program manager for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the area of ​​health care. They have three children together.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burkina Faso , Nunleys African Election Database , November 23, 2011