Can anyone recommend any field-work based studies of the

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution/Comités de Defensa de la Revolución in Burkina Faso, either before or during Sankara's period in power.

I am looking for information on what they actually did on a daily basis, how they were formed (they predated Sankara) when and by whom? How Sankara sought to transform them. Relationship to military leadership under Sankara, etc.

Most of the literature I have read draws on very high-level ideological overviews of Sankara but little to no fieldwork.

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