What they really think about President Traore in Burkina Faso
I spent a month in Ouagadougu speaking to people about President Trarore This was my fifth visit to Burkina Faso, the first being in 2012 and the first since Ibrahim Trarore took power. His actions have upset western powers but created a dedicated following online in the West from the African diaspora, black activists and many on the left. Embracing Pan-Africanism and anti-imperialist ideals, he is unsurprisingly compared to the country’s inspirational, radical leader of the 1980s Thomas Sankara, who…
