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Abstract. 31 October 2014 the president of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré under the pressure of resurgent people resigned and promptly left the country after 27 years staying in power. A day before this rebellious youth’s movement came to the high point of the turbulent campaign of mass protest actions, which had been started a week ago. Finally, they destroyed and set on fire the National Assembly building, state own broadcasting company, headquarter of ruling party, and a number of residences and offices belonging to infamous members of the high political class in the “Fourth Republic”. Compaoré was an extremely unpopular president since he took power in 1987, but the trigger of the uprising that levelled his regime with the ground in a few days was the attempt to amend once again the Constitution. The article 37 became the center of debates as it prevented his reelection for the 5th term in 2015. Some French and then even a number of Russian media immediately nicknamed the events as “Black Spring”, meaning some kind of its direct or spirit connection with recent uprisings in the Arab world, crushed before the ruling regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and provoked civil wars in Syria and Yemen. Actually they had little in common besides the length of tenure in office of toppled dictators. The very aforementioned cliché could be hardly found in national burkinabé press and political reflexions while actors of the events don’t identify themselves with Arab youth have been taking Tahrir Square. The burkinabé uprising had its own forerunners, heroes, images, discourses and narratives.
Keywords: Burkina Faso, Sankara, nationalism, ideology, revolution.