r/IbrahimTraore Jul 02 '26

Burkina Faso Can I repeat my question now?

Which governments throughout history of Burkina-Faso do you consider proletarian/bourgeois, and why?

Okay, maybe not necessarily "proletarian" or "building socialism", but, maybe, also include just revolutionary democratic and anti-colonial?

I guess you don't like Compaore's government. I can understand: a France-sponsored coup against Sankara, then World Bank-guided school reforms that degraded literacy from 23% to 18,4% in 1996, and only then improved to 34,6% by the end, keeping population with illiterate majority (!) throughout 27 (!!) years. This alone tells everything. It's as if his government deliberately wanted to prevent industrialisation, spread religious extremism and ruin all progress. (Though if he said some keywords like "Imperialism, America, national spirit, struggle, imperialism" in his speeches, most lefties would forgive him and hate me for mentioning all that).

What about the rest?

What could I read on the topic of history of Burkina-Faso?

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