Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso Ministers arriving for a 1984 Cabinet meeting. Normally, Ministers moved around in a fleet of highly decorated Mercedes Benz cars; Sankara sold them all off. All you got was the cheapest car of the day, a Renault 5, which he also rode to work with.

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