Mitterand was such a piece of sh.... - Adebayo Adeniran - Medium

…wed him to continue criticising them in public — within limits — while they continued to fund him). President Mitterand visited Ouagadougou and received the dressing down of his life from Sankara in a way that made everyone in the room quite tense. When Mitterand gave his response he had been so trolled that he said in reference to Sankara “this man is a bit disturbing”. He annoyed Reagan with constant attacks on their foreign policy and the US cut funding for forestry…

Revolutionary Road: Thomas Sankara and the Agitation of Burkina Faso

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