By Erasmus Ikhide
CAPTAIN Ibrahim Traore, the President of Burkina Faso, is an African soldier and a Pan-Africanist. He’s also a revolutionary icon and lover of African liberation struggles, going by his people-oriented and African-centered policies. Like those before him, he is on the verge of being extinguished by bloodlust imperialists with the old tricks of stepping into African political crises to rescue victims of misgovernance.
The dubious declaration of General Michael Langley of AFRICOM before the US Senate that Captain Ibrahim Traore is furnishing his personal nourishment and protection with the nation’s gold is nothing short of extreme propaganda. The general simply casts himself as an agent of destruction, furthering the imperialists’ agenda for the plundering of mineral sources across the African continent.
General Langley’s failure to mention Traore’s free education policy from primary to tertiary institutions, his housing for all project, and the total free health care services of his administration downplays the foibles and quirks of democratic lunacy on the African continent.
Strictly speaking, it’s elevating that early enough; the Burkinabes and the rest of Africans are sending very strong warnings to the Western imperialists to lay off Africa’s back, upon which they’ve arrogantly ridden roughshod, exploited African humanity, and degraded and raped the continent for centuries upon centuries.
The man, Captain Ibrahim Traore, whom many have dubbed “The Conscience of African Libertinism” and the best African president presently, can’t be forced to bow or be cowed to embrace the bullets of the Western assailants, either from the US or France. The mission is clear: to truncate Traore’s developmental agenda for Burkina Faso and his philosophy for the emancipation of Africa from the clutches of neo-colonialism and imperialism, which is the last stage of colonialism for empty, hollow and corrupt democracy, practiced in its breach.
Africans and the right-thinking world are not oblivious of the imperialist monsters’ push, who are using their own media platforms to paint Captain Traore black and negatively too before the international audience. It’s now clear that Africans can’t be deceived again by the Western propaganda machines. It’s rather surprising that the West is still flaming her penchant for stone-cold nihilism at the twilight of the 21st century instead of avoiding a repeat of the horror of their history in Africa.
In fact, Dr. Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of Congo was the first prime minister who was assassinated in 1961, and there were allegations of CIA involvement in his death. Sylvanus Olympio of Togo followed. Olympio was the first president of Togo after independence from France. He was assassinated in 1963, allegedly with the help of the US and French governments, after he decided to break away from the CFA franc currency imposed by France.
Ditto Amilcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Cabral was a key figure in Guinea-Bissau’s independence movement. He was assassinated in 1973 by Portuguese agents allegedly working for the Portuguese government. In our recent history, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya became one of their numerous victims for championing African Renaissance.
He was captured and assassinated in October 2011 during the Libyan Civil War, which was supported by Western powers. The tragic ending of Felix Moumie of Cameroon, a nationalistic leader in the hands of imperialist vultures, was extremely revolting. He was poisoned to death in Geneva in 1960 by a French agent.
To date, Africans still lament the extinguishing of Ruben Um Nyobe of Cameroon. Nyobe was a Cameroonian freedom fighter and anti-imperialist leader who was killed in 1958 by French-led counter-insurgency forces in Cameroon.
Can the freedom fighters ever forget Mehdi Ben Barka of Morocco? Ben Barka was a Moroccan politician and leading socialist opponent of King Hassan II. He disappeared in Paris in 1965 and was allegedly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by Moroccan intelligence officers with possible involvement from French police and Israeli Mossad agents.
We would be doing violence to history if the West were not reminded of their atrocious killing of Pierre Mulele of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mulele was a Congolese rebel leader. He was assassinated in 1968 by the Mobutu regime, which was backed by the West. Mulele’s death was particularly brutal—with reports of his ears being ripped off, nose cut off, and arms and legs amputated before being thrown into the Congo River.
East Africa didn’t escape the repulsive, blood-embracing and blood-curdling propensity of the West with the killing of Eduardo Mondlane of Mozambique, who was the president of the Mozambican Liberation Front. He was assassinated in 1969 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, when he opened a package with a bomb inside, planted by Portuguese International and State Defense Police (PIDE) or his rivals in FRELIMO.
For the record, the recklessly primitive; callously patronizing, tyrannicaly asphyxiating and sanctimonious standpoint of General Michael Langley, the commander of AFRICOM, which echoes President Barack Obama’s regrettable descent of American worldview, speaks more of their slave-absorbent mentality.
Like Obama, Gen. Langley has been tutored by the US military industrial complex that the weapons and warheads manufactured by American Government wouldn’t be served as a menu for a dinner. It would certainly be used in Burkina Faso, like Libya to destroy Africans and their cities with the pretense that they’re using the monies realized from sales of crude oil or gold from the countries and their foreign reserves to rebuild the countries they have deliberately destroyed.
AFRICOM, under any guise, is needless and useless on African soil—except for its American’s self-deceptive unipolar police of the global community and her ill-fated vainglorious self-salutary bulwark—as the custodian of democratic ethos.
Ikhide Erasmus contributed this piece via: ikhideluckyerasmus@gmail.com.
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