Burkina Faso catches the French media off-guard!

>[Sankara](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Thomas_Sankara.jpg) had traveled to Paris himself a few days before the summit, met [François Mitterand](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Mitterrand_%28arms_folded%29.jpg), and signed a series of new cooperation agreements between France and Burkina Faso. On the surface at least, relations between the two countries had eased somewhat, and Sankara’s visit to Paris paved the way for Mitterand to visit Ouagadougou later that year. After Mitterand’s Burkina Faso visit, a journalist asked the French president what new aid France had agreed to provide. He responded, “But President Sankara didn’t ask me for anything!” ____________________________________ **Source:** Harsch, Ernest. “7: A Foreign Policy of One’s Own.” *Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary*. Ohio University Press, 2014. 112. Print. ____________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara) [François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand) ____________________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**