Adama Touré (SONABEL trade unionist) explained

Adama Touré was a Burkinabé trade unionist. He worked as an agent at Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL).^[1] As of the 1980s, he was the Secretary of the Trade Union of Technicians and Workers of Burkina (STOB, Syndicat des travailleurs et ouvriers du Burkina) and Secretary for External Relations for the Burkinabé Trade Union Confederation (CSB).^{[2] [3] [4]} He was a leader of the Patriotic League for Development (LIPAD) and a member of the Central Executive Bureau of the African Independence Party (PAI).^{[5] [6]}

After the rift between LIPAD and the militaries in August 1984, Toure was dismissed from public service for 'defamation of the CNR' (National Revolutionary Council).^{[1] [7]} In October 1984 Toure was arrested.^{[1] [8]} He was released from detention on 3 February 1986, along with the PAI general secretary Adama Touré.

He was arrested on 1 June 1987, as the CNR was cracking down on LIPAD-PAI.^{[8] [9]}

He was the younger brother of CSB leader Soumane Touré.^{[10] [11]}

Notes and References

1. Afrique contemporaine, Issues 133–136. Documentation française, 1985. p. 64
2. Bruno Jaffré. Burkina Faso, les années Sankara: de la Révolution à la rectification. L'Harmattan, 1989. p. 244
3. Africa Report, Vol. 32. African-American Institute, 1987. p. 13
4. Ludo Martens, Hilde Meesters. Sankara, Compaoré et la révolution burkinabè. Editions Aden, 1989. p. 30
5. Année africaine. Éditions A. Pedone., 1988. p. 294
6. Adama Abdoulaye Touré. Une vie de militant: ma lutte du collège à la révolution de Thomas Sankara. Hamaria, 2001. p. 154
7. Quarterly Economic Review of Togo, Niger, Benin, Burkina, Issue 1. EIU, 1985. p. 21
8. James Genova. Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987. MSU Press, 2022. pp. xi, 9–10, 15, 18–19, 51–52, 92–93, 165
9. Unité: organe de liaison et de lutte de la C.S.B.. Confédération syndicale burkinabe, 1988. p. 13
10. Le Monde. Libération de M. Soumane Touré
11. Afrique nouvelle, Issues 1902–1927. 1986. p. 9