TRAORÉ: 'MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN AFRICA'

There is nothing innately African about the continent’s underdevelopment. Instead, an intentional campaign to subjugate the land and its people has led to Africa's predicament. 

That's what Ian Dunlap (@themasterinvestor on IG / @_masterinvestor on X) and Rashad Bilal (@rashadbilal on IG) discussed on an episode of the 'Black Out' podcast in January.

The West exploiting Africa prompted people-backed military coups d'état led by Mali’s Assimi Goïta (@goitaassimi on X) in 2021, followed by Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré (@capitaineib226 on X) in 2022 and Niger’s Abdourahamane Tiani in 2023. Thus, a nucleus for Pan-Africanism formed, with the three countries announcing in September 2023 that they’d establish a confederation called the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Launched on 6 July 2024, the confederation has been making bold moves, such as Niger kicking out French mining giant Orano and Mali enacting a new mining code that gives the country more control over its resources. It also is launching its own AES currency after issuing AES passports and coordinating on security, economics, transportation and communications.

Video credit: ‘Black Out,’ Earn Your Leisure (@earnyourleisure on X)

Sources

https://www.dw.com/en/africa-and-france-an-unfulfilled-dream-of-independence/a-54418511 

https://unherd.com/2023/08/niger-and-the-collapse-of-frances-empire/ 

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/8-out-of-the-10-biggest-tax-havens-are-british-territories-134075/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/09/archives/cia-said-to-have-aided-plotters-who-overthrew-nkrumah-in-ghana.html 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tooth-patrice-lumumba-congo-independence-returned-familly-belgium-rcna33270 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57239805 

https://noirpress.org/burkina-fasos-rapid-progress-under-africas-youngest-president/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c241e115161o 

https://www.africanews.com/2023/08/31/mali-adopts-new-mining-code-to-raise-gold-concessions-ownership/ 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/21/niger-revokes-french-nuclear-groups-licence-at-major-uranium-mine 

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS

https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/sahel/mali/mali-un-coup-dans-le-coup