Afrika in Focus Special: Why the White man wants to KILL Ibrahim Traore

The battle for African sovereignty has entered a critical new phase with Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré at its center. Since coming to power in September 2022, Traoré has become the focal point of Western opposition, facing an astonishing twenty assassination attempts. His crime? Daring to reclaim Burkina Faso's resources and sovereignty from Western control, particularly French neocolonial influence that has dominated the region for decades.

The heart of this conflict lies in the notorious French Colonial Agreement established in 1958 by Charles de Gaulle as independence movements swept across Africa. This agreement, rarely discussed in Western media, effectively maintained economic colonization while creating the illusion of political independence. Under its terms, France maintained ownership of all natural resources in its former colonies, claimed 95% of national wealth, loaned money back to African nations at exploitative interest rates, and secured first rights to all government contracts. This arrangement ensured that countries like Burkina Faso remained financially dependent despite their nominal independence.

Ibrahim Traoré, following in the footsteps of Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader who was assassinated in 1987), has systematically dismantled this neocolonial structure. He has reclaimed ownership of the country's gold mines, renegotiated exploitative contracts, invested heavily in agriculture to ensure food sovereignty, and is building a gold refinery so that Burkina Faso can process its own resources rather than exporting raw materials for Western profit. These actions represent a direct challenge to the established order that has kept Africa's wealth flowing northward for centuries.

The Western response has followed a familiar playbook. Just as past leaders like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, and Muammar Gaddafi faced destabilization and elimination when they threatened Western interests, Traoré now faces propaganda campaigns accusing him of corruption and dictatorship. The irony is striking – Western powers rarely target African leaders who maintain decades-long authoritarian rule while serving foreign interests, such as Paul Biya in Cameroon or Teodoro Obiang in Equatorial Guinea. The selective application of "democracy" concerns reveals the true priorities at play.

The issue at stake is total Afrikan Emancipation/ Freedom from White Terrorism/Supremacy or continued slavery and impoverishment.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Africa in Focus
• 4:27 The Colonial Agreement Exploiting Africa
• 9:29 Ibrahim Traoré's Revolutionary Leadership
• 14:28 Western Tactics Against African Leaders
• 22:11 Global Protests Against Western Interference
• 30:21 True Leadership vs Western Puppets
• 33:53 Call to Action and Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome to this week's edition of Africa in Focus with myself, kwame, ghanaian writer, broadcaster, journalist, podcaster and entrepreneur. And in this week's edition of Africa in Focus is a special, why the white man or the West, but I use the term the white man wants to kill Ibrahim Chouhary. Alright, so that's the theme for this week's show why the West or the white man wants to kill Ibrahim Chouhary. So before we start, if you like what you hear, please share to your friends, family, family, social media networks and subscribe to Ghana African folks on YouTube. We're going to get at least 100 subscribers by the end of the year, so please subscribe to the Ghana African folks on YouTube. Hit the notification bell, meaning that every time I upload a new podcast, youtube notify you of this. Also, follow me on Spotify. Look out for Ghana Africa in Focus on Spotify and click follow, meaning that every time we upload a new podcast on Spotify, spotify will notify you of that. So go on day600 to follow us on Spotify. We want to get to 1000 by the end of the year, so please subscribe, tell your friends, tell your family about Ghana Africa in Focus.

Speaker 1: 1:28

All right, so you may not be aware, but this week, or Wednesday to be exact, wednesday, april 30th, was a global day of protest in favour of Ibram Turei, who have now become a target for western or white imperialists. So, for those of you who don't know who Ibrahim Torre is, he is the leader of Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is a country in West Africa, north of Ghana, and is a predominantly Muslim country, and Burkina Faso is a remnant of the former Morsi Empire. Okay, that was in the Middle Ages and Ibrahim you know. Famous Burkina Beys include Thomas thomas sankara, who was a fantastic leader. Who, who, between 1983 and 1997, and ibrim choway is a disciple of, uh, thomas sankara. Thomas sankara did a lot of work in the four years he was head of Burkina Faso, and that got up in the nose of the French. But what Thomas Sankara did, amongst other things, was to elevate women to high office. He also invested a lot in agriculture and he also wanted the country to own its wealth, as opposed to the French owning the wealth. So this is why, you know, thomas Sankar was taken out by his close friend, blaise Campore, and I come on to, as I say to the African leaders as part of this podcast evolves.

Speaker 1: 3:20

So Ibn Chowdhri came to power in a cool September 2022. And since that time, he has revolutionised the country, and I'll tell you what he's done again as the podcast evolves. So the question we must ask is why does the white man, or the West, want to kill literally kill Ibn Chowdhury? And on that, there's been 20 assassinations already on Ibn Chowdhury's life over the last nearly three years, yeah, so it shows you that the white man, yeah, is the enemy of African progress, african emancipation. So, before I even go there, let's rewind and tell you why Ibn Chorwe of Bukina Faso, along with Niger, along with Mali, and to the Greece of the Gael, why they have had those uprisings I call them uprisings, not coups why they've had those uprisings that has led to, apart from Senegal, military, so-called rulership, yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:40

So, if you are aware, a couple of years ago I did a podcast on why the French must leave Africa, because the French have done a lot of wicked to Africa and done a lot of bad to Africa since, you know, from slavery right down to colonialism, right down to neo-colonism. In actual fact, as part of your research, listeners, you can get a book by former British MI5 agent, frederick Forsyth, called Dogs of War. Now, it's a fictional book, which is a bit of reality, but it shows you how the French, yeah, plan coups and destabilize countries where the leader is not playing ball. Okay, so that novel you can get, frederick Forsyth Dogs of War. I think it's also on YouTube as well. So look out for that and you can see for yourself the wicked machinations of the French state.

Speaker 1: 5:49

In actual fact, france needs Africa, like I said in that podcast here. You know, jacques Chirac, the former president of France, said that without Africa France would slide to the realm of the third world country. France will meet Iran. As early as 1956, yeah, which is two years before the the French, you know francophone agreement, said that without Africa France has no future. I will say, I want to say that again, françois Mitterrand, french president between 1981 and 1995, said, three years before the French Clean Agreement was signed, that without Africa France has no future in the 21st century. Check it. So this is why France is important to Africa, or rather, africa, rather, is important to France, because, contrary to what you may believe or think, africa does not need France, but France. It is France that needs Africa.

Speaker 1: 6:56

So in that podcast I said why French Museum Africa? Right, I focus your attention on that wicked France colonial agreement that was hushed up by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, because the winds of change were sweeping across Africa, with the likes of Kwame Nkrumah gaining independence for Ghana in 1957 and other countries beginning to, you know, shackle the yoke of, you could say, political, western, imperial imperialism. Now, one of the of the key things in that French colonial agreement, right, which is why Burkina Faso, or under Ibn Choway, staged the uprising and, more importantly, left the Francophone Agreement is that under the Francophone Agreement, france owns all the resources. So you couldn't check Burkina, which is very fertile in agricultural products, which has a lot of gold, which has a lot of oil, yeah, france owns that. Under this colonial agreement again another colonial agreement France takes 95 percent of the wealth of that country back to Paris, in the treasury in Paris, in the treasury in Paris. Again, under the wicked colonial agreement, france, yeah, borrows money that they've stolen to these African countries. So, for example, burkina Faso France borrows money to Burkina Faso and they stole a bit of interest rates that Burkina Faso would have to pay back.

Speaker 1: 8:42

Hmm, again, and the final part of this agreement but I'll probably leave it in the front notes so you can read it for yourself more deeply is that France has first refusal on contracts. So, basically, if Burkina Faso wanted to build a road from, let's say, from Ouagadougou, the capital, to a poor city, right that a French firm would have the first say on that contract? Yeah, they would have the first tender to that contract. Yeah, but if they went to another country, if the French didn't think it was for them. So that's showing you the nuances, the wicked nuances, of that French colonial agreement, essentially making these colonies like Burkina Faso, like Mali, like Senegal, like Cameroon, like La Côte d'Ivoire, basically slaves. It's slavery in different guise, slavery in different guise. And so seeing this and seeing how much the French since 1958, all it beat the four years of Sankara, how much the French had stolen, looted from Mkenefaso, is why Ibn Chure inspired the uprising in 2022 September.

Speaker 1: 10:08

Prior to that, a lot of the African youth in Burkina Faso, but also generally in so-called Francophone Africa, were waking up. Yeah, they were seeing firsthand the machinations of that wicked, evil French colonial agreement. Yeah, that basically made him slaves in their own country, and those are uh, they're very popular francophonauts. I think his name was Papa, papa, papa Wemba. He was very vocal through his music about the French involvement in Africa, particularly that colonial agreement. So, given all this backdrop, is what made the uprising of Ibn Churi? Yeah, and so what he's done and this is why you know there have been 20 attempts in his life is basically to get out of that Frankfurt Agreement that France does not own Burkina's resources, that France cannot have per se on any contract, that 95% of Burkina's wealth is not going to France but staying in Burkina, and that Burkina has a right to be a sovereign sovereign in the true sense of the word independent nation, not a colony of France.

Speaker 1: 11:48

As well as Ibn Churi, like I've told you before, has invested heavily in our culture, because one of the key fundamentals of nation development here, or building a nation, is that nation's ability to feed itself. So if a nation cannot feed itself, that nation would die and that nation would become a pawn in other games. As you see, in the Israeli-Palestine conflict, israel has used food as a weapon against the Palestinians, not allowing food to go into Palestine, which is why you've got a lot of, you know, possibly starvation, malnutrition in Gaza or the West Bank as a result of, you know, the recent Israeli blockade of Gaza, and so food can be used as a weapon against vulnerable countries. So this is why Ibn Choway has invested heavily in our culture. Secondly, the only thing that is done is Ibn Churey has invested heavily in our culture.

Speaker 1: 12:56

Secondly, the thing that he's done is taken back ownership of the gold and other mineral resources back into the hands of Burkina Faso. So under that French agreement it was all owned by France. Ibn Churey has taken that away from the French, taking that away from the French. He's also renegotiated a lot of the contracts that were signed by previous governments under the French colonial agreements, because those contracts that were signed did not favour Burkina Faso, it favoured the French. So Ibrahim Choui reviewed that, making this contract now in favour of Burkina Faso Again. He's now signed the gold. So now the gold Belongs to Burkina Faso and apparently, either by the end of this year or next year, burkina Faso will complete it's newly refined Gold factory, whereby it will refine the gold In it's own country, will complete its newly refined gold factory whereby it will refine the gold in its own country rather than being used as a raw material and then the gold grown out of Burkina and being refined in Paris or London or Amsterdam or Tel Aviv and then coming back to Burkina and finished goods. Ibn Churay has nipped all that in the bud and is now in the process of nearly building a gold refinery whereby all the gold mined in Burkina Faso can be refined in Burkina Faso as finished goods.

Speaker 1: 14:24

So, because he's doing this, yeah, and he's not corrupt, he's not greedy, because the people have seen the change for themselves, the people of Burkina have seen the change for themselves. And so, because, you know, ibn Chowdhury has not put the money in the Swiss bank account or bank account in London or New York or Zurich, right, because Ibn Chowdhury is not corrupt, because Ibrahim Chowdhury does not use money to buy such cars, because Ibrahim Chowdhury is doing what the people want, ie to make the country a more sovereign state, a more independent state, yeah, and it's giving back the wealth to the people, it's giving back the resources of the people, it's giving back the resources of the of the country. The people are not greedy multinationals. He's now become, you know, uh, non-percent to french in terms of and in terms of france, why it's not just france, it's just it's the west, because the white man sticks together. So we see, now, recently, you know, the US have put a communique out that accuses Ibn Chowdhury of using the gold to enrich himself and his families and crony, which is a lie. But you see, this is a propaganda that they're using now. Yeah, that he's using the gold for himself. He's you know he's doing this, he's doing that. You know his cronies are lacking. They're milking the country while the people suffer. This is a sort of propaganda that they're wanting to use a justification to get rid of him.

Speaker 1: 16:07

Wasn't the same propaganda the West used about Gaddafi Gaddafi killing the same people in Libya when he wasn't? The same propaganda the West is about Gaddafi Gaddafi killing his own people in Libya when he wasn't? Because under Gaddafi, libya had no debt. Under Gaddafi, every Libyan had a house or an apartment. Under Gaddafi, every Libyan had free healthcare. Under Gaddafi, every Libyan had free education. Under Gaddafi, every Libyan had free education. Under Gaddafi, if you were a newlywed couple, right, you would get a house and get $50,000 to start your life and this is a way to quote dictator. But because the West knew that Gaddafi wanted the United States of Africa and was in the process of using the gold reserves of Libya to finance the single African currency, meaning that all raw materials in Africa will now be priced in gold dinars literally gold and the West didn't have that much gold. This is why they had to get rid of Gaddafi not because he was a dictator, not because he was killing the Zayin people, but because he was instrumental in the reawakening or the reconverging of the African single currency, of African free trade area and also the African Central Bank that Kwame Nkrumah had envisaged 60 years ago. So this is why Qaddafi was eliminated. So we now see the same propaganda, same tactics that they used then, they're using now against Ibn Shoaib.

Speaker 1: 17:48

But before I go any further, it's important to understand that this very same white man who was attempted to kill Ibn Chowri not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, but 20 times, is the same white man who killed Lumumba. Who killed Lumumba? Yeah, because the US president at the time, dwight Eisenhower, he gave the orders for Rajesh Lumumba in the Congo to be killed. Yeah, again, the same western, or the white man that was involved in the coup that got rid the crime and criminal of Ghana 1966. Yeah, and the CIA decriminalised documents that prove that that coup in Ghana on February 24th 1966 was hatched in Washington by the CIA, were thought by Israeli Mossad, french intelligence and MI6 from Britain. This is the same white man yeah, western people that got rid of Thomas Sankara by using his friend, his close friend, killed Thomas Sankara. This is the same white man that killed Malcolm X, that infiltrated the nation of Islam, yeah, and put plants in there which ended up killing Malcolm X. This is the same western agencies, or the same white man that killed MLK Martin Luther King yeah, so the white man.

Speaker 1: 19:29

Or the same white man that killed MLK Martin Luther King yeah, so the white man, or the West has got a track record in removing African leaders or black leaders that they deem a threat. Because back in the day, Patrick Simumba was deemed a threat because he wanted to nationalise the minds of the old Congo and give the world back to people. Malcolm X, back in the day, was deemed a threat because he was beginning to wake up African Americans from their slumber and make them proud to be African. Martin Luther King became a threat to America and the white man because again he was waking up the conscientized mind of the Africans in America. Again, kwame Nkrumah became a threat to the white man because of his pan-African stance and his drive for the United States of Africa, which would become a threat to the West. This is where Nkrumah got taken out.

Speaker 1: 20:25

So what I'm saying is that African total emancipation is against Western imperialism and, on another foot, western imperialism is anti-African emancipation. I hope you understand that, because our liberation, our freedom from total Western dominance right is our emancipation. But they will not allow that because Africa is where they eat from, the African table is where they eat from. That is why they covered up Africa in the Congress of Berlin in 1884-1885 like a pizza, so that each of the Western powers could have their part of their human estate. Because they know back then, as they do now, that Africa has all the mineral resources that the West needs, that the white man needs for their way of life, their quality of life and, more importantly, their industrial complex, particularly this now this move for AI, artificial intelligence right, a lot of the raw materials used to make AI come from Africa. If you look at, you know a lot of the high-tech stuff like smartphones, like smart TVs, like smart computers, like these new electric cars, all new material that come out of Africa, specifically DR Congo. Yeah, so you have to understand, listeners, that Africa has all the resources that the white man needs for their industrial complex and, essentially, their survival, because without African raw materials, the West is nothing, and same too for India and China and Russia and whatever all these geopolitical entities. They need African resources to be on top of the world order. Yeah, because right now we are in a new world order and Africa is the final frontier.

Speaker 1: 22:40

So when you've got a leader like Ibn Chowri and the others in Mali, senegal and Niger that are going against Western imperialism, that poses a direct threat to Western interests. So this is why Bukina Faso, ibn Chowdhury, who has become vocal, unlike Mali and Niger, who are not as vocal, but they are still doing their thing. That's why he's become a threat. Because Ibn Chorin now represents Kwame Nkrumah. So back 60 years ago, when Kwame Nkrumah was fighting for Ghana independence, but not just fighting for Ghana independence, because he said, and I quote Ghana's independence is meaningless unless it's linked to the total liberation of Africa. So Munkuma's drive was not just for Ghana but for the whole African continent. And we see in Ibn Chowri Kwame Munkuma 2.0. Because, despite what is happening in Burkina, we still have the problem with Islamist insurgents which are sponsored by Qatar and other proxy bodies to destabilize that region so that they can have the minerals free of charge.

Speaker 1: 24:13

Yeah, despite that, ibn Chowd Shura is able to, you know, put forward his Pan-African radical agenda in Burkina Faso, and so this poses a direct threat to the Western interest, and this is why they've used Africans, and this is how they now operate. So back then, like in the case of Martin Luther King, and to a degree I just remember, they used white people to kill those leaders, but now the white man and the rest are smart. So what they're doing now, they are paying Africans, yeah, with blood money, to go into Bukini Faso, cause chaos, cause mayhem and end up killing Ibrahim Chourey. Didn't we see that with Gaddafi? That it was local Libyans that ended up killing Gaddafi? Yeah, and those local Libyans were sponsored by the West, namely America and NATO.

Speaker 1: 25:21

We're seeing a similar thing now, because even one of the attempts on Ibn Churri's life, apparently one soldier or some soldiers were paid 5 million pounds each to kill Choré, and apparently they said to Choré that we've been given £5 million to kill you, yeah, but we didn't take. We just took the money, but we did not kill you. And then Choré says take the money, yeah. So that shows you why that the white man, this wicked evil white man, this wicked evil white man who does not want Africans and Africa to progress. Why is hell bent? Hell bent on destroying any semblance of African emancipation? Because, like I said, our emancipation as Africans is their demise and they cannot counter that. And they will do anything and anything in their power, as they see it, to ensure that Africa nevizes. And so this man, ibn Chowri, who is setting the example for other Africans to follow, is seen as the real model.

Speaker 1: 26:37

So this is why they won't take him out and this is why, you know, on April 30th, when he's just gone, there was a global protest demonstration against the West. The white man who wanted to stay by his Burkina Faso by assassinating Ibn Chowri, so in Wagad, wanted to stay by his Burkina Faso by assassinating Ibn Chowdhury, so in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina itself, in Accra, ghana, in Abuja, nigeria, in Kingston, jamaica, in London, england, in Paris, france, in Berlin, germany, basically all over the world where African people are right, there were protests against you know, the propaganda and the essentially attempts on Ibn Choray's life, and it was great to see that millions upon millions of African people across the world are saying directly to the West we will not allow you to kill Ibn Chowdhury like you did, muammar Gaddafi, steve Biko, thomas Sankara, patti Slimumba, kramun Kuma. We will not tell you, because today is New African and we are wide awake, we know your games. Not only is wide awake, we know your games. Not all of us are asleep. We know what your games are. To you say best Africa and continue to make it a hill of wood and a jaw of water. So this is why the global protest demonstration took place last Wednesday, and I was pleased to see that Africans across the world now are becoming of age. And we sent a message to the that Africans across the world now are becoming of age, yeah, and we sent a message to the West, to the white man, that should you be successful? Should you be successful because, for me personally, I believe the almighty, divine, supreme being, triyampong and the ancestors are guiding Ibn Chure. But should you be successful? Should you be successful in killing Chure? There's a many white people in Africa.

Speaker 1: 28:49

If you kill Chure, that is a declaration of war on African people. Yeah, and we have a right to defend ourselves by enemies necessary, yeah, and so, as Africans, as you know, people who are sick and tired of white dominance in our countries, of western imperialism, because western imperialism is alive, they be fooled by a decision that African countries are independent because they've got a flag, and that's actually no. Africa was never independent. African countries have been never independent. They are still under the yoke of white supremacy, western domination. And the time has come to wake up and, to you know, warn the West that if you move Ibn Chowri it's not been as usual There'll be serious, serious repercussions on your people living in Africa. And so, in closing, you know African emancipation is total sovereignty, self-determination and unreliance from white supremacy, white domination yeah, and it's been true in what's happening in Mali, niger and Senegal from white supremacy, white domination, yeah. And Nibim Chourey and what's happening in Mali, niger and Senegal is evidence of this reawakening of the African spirit. That you know we want to be free from Western imperialism and Western control, and that Western imperialism is an anathema and a threat to African sovereignty, african self-determination and the ability of Africans to master and take charge of their own destiny. And so what we see, particularly with the alliance of Sahelian states again another incrementalism in terms of the Casablanca group is a determination. Alliance of Sahelian states again another incriminism in terms of the Casablanca group is a determination to rid ourselves from Western imperialism and Western dominance and that, as Africans, our countries and our leaders, not the proper ones that you put in place.

Speaker 1: 31:12

Because while they criticise, while the West criticise Ibn Chowdhury, while you they criticising, why are the West criticising Ibn Chowdhury? Why are you criticising Equatorial Guinea, theobald Oberang, who's been in power for 45 years? Why are you criticising the Iyadah Magdini in Togo, that's been in power since 64,? Why are you criticising Paul B of Cameroon, who's been in power for nearly 40 years? Why didn't you criticise Yuri Museveni of Uganda? He's corrupt. He's more corrupt and more crooked than he'd been in Troy. Why didn't you take him out? Even poor Kagame of Rwanda, been in charge for 30 years. Why don't you criticise him? Because all those people that have just been in charge are European project managers, are lackeys for the West, and as long as they're doing what the West wants, they will not attack them.

Speaker 1: 32:13

But as soon as somebody like Ibrahim Chouhi comes along and is doing what the West does not want him to do, then they become public enemy number one and we're saying enough is enough. And so, in closing, ibrahim Chouhi has our support, our conscious, right-managing applicants, and it would be a big mistake if you murder Captain Ibn Chowdhury, because Captain Ibn Chowdhury is now, you could say, the poster boy of Africa, and a lot, of, a lot of African youth are watching what is going on and seeing the tremendous work that he's doing in Burkina Faso giving back land to the people, giving back wealth to people, creating employment for the people. And I saw a video the other day whereby there's a massive road program going on in Burkina Faso. Yeah, so when the French left, there aren't any roads in Burkina Faso apart from from Wagadougou, the capital, but in the mature way, there is a rapid, rapid, you know, road construction programme that's ongoing and going on within the country.

Speaker 1: 33:26

This is what leadership is about. Leadership is not about sending money to the white man, you know, having Swiss bank accounts, having, you know, driving round in expensive cars while people live on two dollars a day. No, leadership is doing is being selfless, like a criminal. Doing for the people, by the people, for the people. Yeah, giving back the wealth of the land to the people and not multinational companies, ensuring that everyone has the right to feed themselves, to care for themselves, to provide shelter for themselves and to be able to afford healthcare and education. This is what Ibn Chowdhury is doing in Burkina Faso. So why should the West call him a dictator and want to get rid of him? That should tell you why that the white man does not want Africa to develop. So we're going to keep an eye on this and listeners, particularly those of you who have African descent keep an eye on events that are going on in Burkina Faso. Don't be swayed by the propaganda in the Western media and support our brother, ibrahim Choury, because he's doing some fantastic work in the country that a lot of these African leaders are not doing.

Speaker 1: 34:38

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