caa a22 4500 388044586 CHVBK 20180307125032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/524825 doi S0002020600036398 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/524825 Wise Christopher Chronicle of a Student Strike in Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso, 1996-1997 [Elektronische Daten] [Christopher Wise] During the 1996-1997 academic year, students at the University of Ouagadougou went on strike for three months. This strike was the worst in Burkina Faso's history (or in the history of the former "Upper Volta”). The author, who was a visiting American professor at the time of the strike, details what happened at the university and in related incidents in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso. The author suggests that the strike may have resulted from the erosion of democratic rights within Burkinabè society, following the assassination of former President Thomas Sankara and the rise to power of current President Blaise Compaoré. Our attention is drawn to contributing factors behind the strike, including long-standing structural problems at the University of Ouagadougou and the politically motivated killing of popular professors and the former student body president Dabo Boukary, all of whom had spoken out against the Compaoré regime. Copyright © African Studies Association 1998 African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/2(1998-09), 19-36 0002-0206 41:2<19 1998 41 ASR https://doi.org/10.2307/524825 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/524825 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wise Christopher NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/2(1998-09), 19-36 0002-0206 41:2<19 1998 41 ASR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 234156465 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge