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How much do y’all seriously believe the news about Ibrahim Traoré?
Title. I’m all for everything he preaches about and seriously believe that every African country would benefit from a leader with a similar worldview, but some of the news spreading about him is kind of insane, especially on Instagram. He’s done plenty of verifiable good things like making education free and raising the minimum wage while declining a salary, but then they claim things like “he made Burkina Faso officially debt free”, and when you try to verify the claim online the World Bank and IMF say that Burkina Faso is still very much in debt. They claimed Burkina Faso now has their own all-Burkinabe electric vehicles, even though the cars are made in China with Congolese minerals like every other electric car. They claimed Burkina Faso now has the fastest high speed train / railway in Africa, yet the videos provided were all AI. I could go on with claims like these.
It doesn’t help that a lot of these news always comes from the same 3 Instagram / TikTok pages like “beingblackislit” and never reputable news sources like CNN, Al Jazeera, France24, etc— and before you chalk it up to the West never wanting to spread awareness of the goodness of Africa or whatever, Western news outlets routinely report on the accomplishments of their “enemies” like China and Russia. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson was parading around the streets of Moscow telling his American viewers how clean the metro stations are and CNN has a dedicated China page that posts stuff like “Nearly half of the world’s 100 tallest bridges are in this Chinese province.”
I’m not trying to discredit Traore’s work and ideas— I believe he’s already well on his way to becoming the reincarnation of Thomas Sankara. The guy’s the second youngest head of state on the planet and has already survived assassination attempts, is fluent in French, English, and native Burkinabé languages, and is making impressive trade deals with Russia. All verified and great. My question is how much of what we’re hearing coming out of Burkina Faso do you guys believe as Africans, and if you guys do have your apprehensions, why do you think people are lying to boost what is already an impressive image?
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Title. I’m all for everything he preaches about and seriously believe that every African country would benefit from a leader with a similar worldview, but some of the news spreading about him is kind of insane, especially on Instagram. He’s done plenty of verifiable good things like making education free and raising the minimum wage while declining a salary, but then they claim things like “he made Burkina Faso officially debt free”, and when you try to verify the claim online the World Bank and IMF say that Burkina Faso is still very much in debt. They claimed Burkina Faso now has their own all-Burkinabe electric vehicles, even though the cars are made in China with Congolese minerals like every other electric car. They claimed Burkina Faso now has the fastest high speed train / railway in Africa, yet the videos provided were all AI. I could go on with claims like these.
It doesn’t help that a lot of these news always comes from the same 3 Instagram / TikTok pages like “beingblackislit” and never reputable news sources like CNN, Al Jazeera, France24, etc— and before you chalk it up to the West never wanting to spread awareness of the goodness of Africa or whatever, Western news outlets routinely report on the accomplishments of their “enemies” like China and Russia. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson was parading around the streets of Moscow telling his American viewers how clean the metro stations are and CNN has a dedicated China page that posts stuff like “Nearly half of the world’s 100 tallest bridges are in this Chinese province.”
I’m not trying to discredit Traore’s work and ideas— I believe he’s already well on his way to becoming the reincarnation of Thomas Sankara. The guy’s the second youngest head of state on the planet and has already survived assassination attempts, is fluent in French, English, and native Burkinabé languages, and is making impressive trade deals with Russia. All verified and great. My question is how much of what we’re hearing coming out of Burkina Faso do you guys believe as Africans, and if you guys do have your apprehensions, why do you think people are lying to boost what is already an impressive image?
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