Sankara, Burkina Faso is a village in the

Tiéfora Department Tiéfora is a department or commune of Comoé Province in south-western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Tiéfora. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 35,894.Comoé Province Comoé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Cascades Region. The capital of Comoé is Banfora. The population of Comoé was 632,695 in 2019. Comoé is divided into 9 departments: See also *Regions of Burkina Faso *Provi ...

in south-western

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana t ...

. The village has a population of 891.Burkinabé government inforoute communale
This village would be named in memory of

Thomas Sankara Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist–Leninist revolutionary, and Pan-Africanist, who served as President of Burkina Faso from his coup in 1983 to his deposition a ...

, Military, revolutionary and President of Burkina Faso.

References

Populated places in the Cascades Region Comoé Province {{Comoé-geo-stub