p/geopolitics_african

Burkina Faso 2025: & Ibrahim Traoré

2025 PanAfrican Union meeting?

Youtube algorithm has me watch these videos too and it's hilarious. One hilarious announcement after another. I can imagine the algo has great success with this.

what is hilarious?

How much he gets done and how fast. In the rest of the world the slightest change takes forever. I haven't been able to find a good summary.  it is also heartwarming to see such progress where 10 years ago 5 year olds had to mine gold by digging dangerous tunnels for 7ish euro per day - without any hope for improvement. It is also hilarious to see the mineral looting ops shut down. Maybe they should have, you know, build a school or a hospital? Maybe a road? It seems all they knew is how to take and in return kept the region in chaos.

yes this applies everywhere from the developing world to developed - i saw how BF welcomed Japanese aid agencies and leveraged using ancient eastern civil engineering techniques to quickly develop infrastructure  having traveled the world for a career, seen everywhere on this planet has potential and abundance but it's generally squandered by the governments and ruling class take the state of California's coastal region and American West Coast cities for proof of concept in any case study, it's always corruption the destroys a region, to include beauracracy and inefficiency, similarly Africa is abundant with resources but their governments are mostly garbage when i was younger i used to adhere to that adage "don't attribute to malice when can be explained by incompetence," but now i believe that to be a PSYOP, it's more like "Don't naivy attribute to good intentioned incompetence, what is clearly exemplified in corruption of greed, ego, and malfeasance."

Many such cases on the continent, colonialism never really ended it just went private. France still has an Empire if you look at its business dealings in the Northwest of Africa.