Bakanna won tun ti Henri Zongo ati Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani na mole, eyi fa ijidide awon araalu.AareIfipagbajoba ti Blaise Compaore gbajo so Sankara di Aare ni August 4, 1983, nigba to je omo odun 33.. 
During this time, Joseph's brother John Wright Roberts entered the ministry of the Liberia Methodist Church, founded by Americans.. 