Has there ever been a good dictator at any point in history? If so, which ones were good?
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There is a proverb from West Africa: "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."
When we are constantly reminded of the horrors inflicted in Cambodia, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Uganda, or Germany, it can be a daunting task to find dictatorial rulers that challenge the norm. I wrote an answer to a similar question about Joseph Pilsudski. Has there ever been a "good dictatorship"? Is humankind capable of doing this? But this time, I will focus on another dictator, one who remains largely unknown in the western world.
Thomas Sankara (1949-1987) wa...