Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s leader, counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

Harry Villegas, Che Guevara’s right-hand man and bodyguard best-known by his nom de guerre Pombo, was one of the last people to see Guevara alive in Bolivia in 1967. The two had fought shoulder ...

Che visited Algeria in July 1963, and this was his first visit to Africa, and it marked the beginning of the strong link between the Guevara legacy and the continent of Africa.

Opinion - The idea of Guevara as a latter-day Don Quixote, ... Congo-Kinshasa: Che Guevara in the Congo. VIDEO: Patrice Lumumba, Uncompromising Independence Fighter. 15 December 2017.

– Che Guevara, address delivered to ... involving substantial Cuban military support in the intervention in Angola as part of the struggle against South African apartheid. Guevara and the Cuban ...

Che Guevara is celebrated as a “revolutionary” by the Left and the uninformed masses. But the truth is that he was a brutal killer and tyrant with a fetish for death and destruction ...

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara" as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists and turning away from former Western ...

The portrait of Guevara, wearing a black beret and a steely stare, later became the world’s best-known image of the man who went on to promote armed revolution across Latin America and Africa ...

Sankara - a charismatic Marxist revolutionary widely known as "Africa's Che Guevara" - was killed in 1987 during a coup led by his former ally Blaise Compaore. Sign up here.

The late Burkinabe President Thomas Sankara - an icon for many young Africans in the 1980s - still remains a heroic "African Che Guevara" to some - 27 years after his assassination at the age of ...