Ibrahim Traore, President of the Black Diaspora?
Is Ibrahim Traore the leader that the African diaspora has been hankering for? This president of Burkina Faso, a West African country nestled between The Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, and Ghana, has been making waves around the world with his bold executive orders. With so much upset in geopolitical and socioeconomic affairs today, why should not African leaders play their hand as well? President Traore’s influence has White supremacists anxious and all others excited!
Burkina Faso is a country that had long lived under French colonization. And, as is the case with most all African countries that have had the misfortune of becoming tragically involved with European powers, the exploitation did not stop with the end of formal occupation. Still Burkina Faso’s resources have been siphoned and stolen away to France and other European nations. Its citizens have been stripped bare of their sovereignty. They have been denied the dignity of landownership and livelihood. This is what President Traore is swiftly remedying.
President Traore has declared that all privately owned land is now property of the state. He intends to redistribute all seized land to the people of Burkina Faso for cultivation. This all in an effort to resolve the inequity of wealthy foreign investors buying the country’s land for their own financial interests which in no way had the best interest of the locals at heart or mind. Traore declares that no non-citizen will own land in Burkina faso, regardless of how much money they have.
President Traore has initiated many projects to further bolster global recognition of his country’s status as a sovereign nation. Burkina Faso owns now two gold mines. It is strengthening its independent agricultural and manufacturing productivity. Burkina Faso is building and winning, on its own terms, and we all know how the colonizers feel about richly melanated people not playing the game how they set it up for them to fail it.
There have been many assassination attempts on the president. Still, he presses on. The United States has President Ibrahim Traore in its crosshairs. France and Brussels have it out for him as well. We cannot allow the world to demonize and dethrone Traore like they wrongly did with Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. President Traore is picking up the baton where so many African dignitaries left off, rekindling the spark of revolution that Burkina Faso’s own Thomas Sankara ignited.
I, for one, look on this man with far more respect than I could ever have for the president of the country in which I live. For me, as a man of melanin in America, Traore is akin to fred Hampton, a freedom fighter murdered in cold blood by the US government; but we affirm he shall not meet a similar fate. It is long overdue that Africa gets That “Big White Ape” off its back, As Minister Malcolm X might have phrased it.
As an AzaZealot, I stand with President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso. Let the torch that Traore carries engulf the African continent, and the diaspora at large, in a conflagration that swelters until we are too hot to handle. Let us burn with the Peacock flame those who would do harm to the noble. Tawusi Devi ki jaya! Ananda Hari Devi ki jaya!