The removal on 31 October of Blaise Compaoré, who was president of Burkina Faso for 27 years, following street protests, has been welcomed as a momentous event.
In a continent where state leaders often desperately cling to power until their death or they are removed through violent force, the 'Burkina revolution' has been hailed as an all too rare case of how citizen mobilisation can successfully produce regime change.
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