The rise and fall of Burkina Faso's President Sankara

The exhumation of what are believed to be the remains of Burkina Faso's former President Thomas Sankara has begun.

Seen as Africa's Che Guevara, the anti-imperialist revolutionary was hastily buried with 12 others in a 1987 coup.

The BBC looks back at his time in power.

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