Analysis Of Sankara's Contribution To The Emancipation Of Women

Thomas asserted that the question of gender is not only imperative but fundamentally lies in the explanation of gender transformation beyond the numbers game that sort to misrepresent the fundamental problem of gender and women oppression. That effort of gender adjustment must seek to answer a fundamental question whose efforts is to understand the order that define the oppression of women for it is in the empathetic of such an order that a possibility of alternatives, therefore better futures could be explored (Nkenkana 2015,p 14).
A further contention is that coloniality of gender speaks to the perennial question of liberation of women from various forms of oppression. The modern world system and its global orders have remained fundamentally
Sankara’s speeches frequently included blunt confrontations with neo imperial powers and reactionary forces. At the thirty-ninth Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York 1984, Sankara described the state of international politics as a world in which nations, evading international law, command groups of outlaws who, guns in hand, live by loot and organize disreputable trafficking (Murrey 2015,p4). He pronounced the indigenous Burkinabéelite as an inert and wretched consumer (Murrey 2015,p4). Sankara’s goal of total emancipation and empowerment for every Burkinabé challenged the foundations of the neo imperial capitalist system and threatened foreign and domestic
In fact, this view is another version of the theory of the productive forces common to pragmatists of different stripes who see the increase in the prolific forces, and not the revolutionary struggle of the masses, as the key to advancing society (1988).
2.2 Through taking the woman question which was unheard of even the OAU did not take the women serious, it was not empowerment but liberation that subjectivity informs revolutionary praxis
The OAU’s creation represented a culmination of resistance against European imposed slavery that begun in the 15th century. After numerous revolts seeking freedom and self-determination for the African people, during the 20th century national liberation movements took on a amass character, accelerating the pace of independence from colonialism (Azikiwe 2009). Members also pledged to respect and promote one another’s inalienable right to independent existence and to confine from interfering in one another’s domestic affairs, including any engagement in subversive activities against each other (Azikiwe