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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

T he last entry in the diary of Argentinian-born Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was recorded in the early hours of 8 October 1967. It reads: ‘At 2am we stopped to rest, since it was useless to carry on ...

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 ...