Ibrahim Traoré: “Thomas Sankara 2.0”
On September 30, 2022, a 34-year-old army captain named Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso in a coup. His rise immediately evoked the memory of a fallen national hero: Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary “Africa’s Che Guevara” assassinated in 1987. Traoré embraced the comparison, adopting Sankara’s anti-imperialist rhetoric and promising to reclaim national sovereignty. The …