Este livro apresente seis dos mais emblemáticos discursos de Thomas Sankara traduzidos para a língua portuguesa por Apolo de Carvalho, Catarina Martins, Gisela Casimiro, José Santy Junior, Mamadou Ba e Sónia Vaz Borges e contextualizado com um prefácio de Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali.
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, anti-colonialist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, in which he lead an historic revolution.
He is widely recognized as the leader Africa always needed : the pan-africanist movement inducted him as a hero since his assassination. Furthermore viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as "Africa's Che Guevara".