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.

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 ...

In the final entry of a four-part series on the Democratic Republic of Congo, the BBC world affairs correspondent Mark Doyle follows in the footsteps of revolutionary Che Guevara in Uvira, in the ...

– 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 ...

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. Compaore, ...

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 ...

Sankara, a charismatic Marxist leader with a reputation as “Africa’s Che Guevara,” came to power in 1983 at the age of 33 after he and Compaore led a leftist coup that overthrew a moderate ...