President of Burkina Faso for 20 years. Patriotic and progressive people of Burkina Faso call him the father of the democratic revival of the Burkina Faso.Under his direction, the country found a remarkable political and institutional stability.
Background
Blaise Compaoré was born on February 3rd 1951 in Ouagadougou (formerly Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso). He is a former soldier and a statesman in Burkina Faso.He is the eldest of seven children of Bila Compaoré Maurice and Therese Bougouma Tiga. Engaged in the French Army in 1934, the father will returned to the country in 1947, where he held the position of Republican Guard. With his brothers and sisters, Blaise Compaoré spent a happy childhood among Ziniaré and Boromo. He still remembers hunting parties which he was doing with his father, and the great affection with which the mother surrounded her children
Career
He became a Bachelor of Secondary Education, Series D in 1972.
Blaise Compaore has Honorary Doctor’s of degree from the High Shcool International in Paris (France)
He certainly played a central role in the major political changes intervened in the country of the honest Men since 1982.
He became President of the Republic of Burkina Faso, The Black Thursday in October 15, 1987, a bloody coup after murdering his predecessor and friend Thomas Sankara for "betraying the spirit of the revolution." Then he embarked on a policy of "rectification of the Revolution," in reality a return to normal relations with Côte d'Ivoire and implicitly of France, who had previously soured.
Politics
President Compaoré asserted that the notion of sexual abstinence was not a monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church and that European NGOs who disagreed with traditional morality were profiting from the situation in order to intervene in regional African affairs.
Views
Quotations:
“The only African head of state who managed to dramatically limit the development of his country without declaring outright war on it”
