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[Captain @Bhattousai]

@nnamdiobiii Goofy mindset. Nobody can box you into accepting anything and nobody has the authority to dictate how you practice an ideology.

Sounds like the abuse from d**b Nigerians is getting to you and you’re looking for a way out lol

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@Mayoveli 😂😂

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪AES: We must pray for our brother and revolutionary Comrade General Assimi GOÏTA, in the same way that he is praying for Africa.

This man carries the entire weight of the Africa continent on his shoulder.

In his early 40s this man has greater vision for Africa, than those octaoctogenarian and nonagenarian so called leaders that we have in Africa.

He fully understands what Panafricanism entails.

He has taken on a US president, the Western sponsored terrorists with great strength and determination that made us all proud .

Africa loves you General Goita and we pray from your health and safety.

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@UnkleAyo lol

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@ali_naka Criminals are in charge all over Africa

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@nonewthing Unfortunately White, Saka and Havertz are probably going to be crocks going forward due to being over played over the past 2-3 years.

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@nonewthing We ain’t got the juice and titles to be talking like this

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@PureAngles He’s getting sacked off and rightly so because he lacks the athleticism to be fully effective in our system. A one off performance doesn’t change that.

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@it_Rutie @DavidHundeyin Nothing go happen

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@Maraka_ML @MakanMoo @CheickIbtidiani Same refrain to address the same disease that ails you!

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@Smilesz2 @marcus_herve @ecowas_cedeao @_AfricanUnion Russians are being paid and compensated for the assistance they’re rendering, you seem to be in conflict with using your brain!!!

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@nonewthing Berta might end up being worse than Raul

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@AFCAMDEN “Berta”

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@nonewthing I agree.

[Media One Africa @MediaOneAfrica]

WHITE PRIVILEGE IN PRINT: THE WASHINGTON POST’S TANTRUM OVER CAPTAIN IBRAHIM TRAORÉ

When the Washington Post sat down to write about Captain Ibrahim Traoré, they did not write an article, they wrote a tantrum. The entire “article” drips with wounded entitlement. Their biggest grievance wasn’t facts on the ground, not policy, not results. No, their sore spot was that the 36-year-old Pan-African leader refuses to sit with them, refuses to answer their questions, refuses to bow to their white-owned pulpit. And for a Western newsroom that still imagines itself the judge of Africa, that silence is unforgivable.

That wounded ego is the real story here. A Western paper that once cheered on coups and invasions across Africa now cries because an African leader will not grant them an interview.

But this fury reveals more about the Washington Post than it does about Burkina Faso. It exposes the arrogance of a colonial press that believes it has the right to define African leaders, movements, and nations. To them, Africa must always explain itself before Western juries. They cannot stand an African leader who doesn’t beg for their validation.

Captain Traoré has a deliberate policy of not pandering to Western outlets. He has made it clear that Burkina Faso’s story will not be filtered through the same colonial eyes that cheered when Sankara was assassinated or when Gaddafi was lynched. The Washington Post knows this. Yet they still expect him to break his principle for their approval. Why? Because deep down, they believe Africa still owes them an explanation.

Traoré’s refusal to feed their propaganda machine is their real pain. It’s on print that Traoré has made a deliberate choice: Western media is not the stage for African sovereignty. He made it clear that he will not play their game. His silence is a weapon, a shield against propaganda, a rejection of the same outlets that justified colonial plunder, assassinations, coups, and invasions.

And you notice the game they play — the minute an African leader rises with dignity, refuses to bow, and starts working genuinely for his people, the Western press pulls out its favorite weapon: “Russia propaganda.” Overnight, the man becomes a “Kremlin puppet,” not because he has any Moscow connection, but because he dares to break free from Paris, London, and Washington. They fear sovereignty more than anything else. They would rather see Africa burn under their stooges than see it rise under its own sons.

Just look at African Stream. A Pan-African media platform built to tell Africa’s story from Africa’s perspective — de-platformed by the U.S. government and Silicon Valley gatekeepers, branded as “Russian disinformation” simply because it exposes Western hypocrisy. The same way they blacklist voices, they blacklist leaders. Their fear is not Russia; their fear is a free Africa controlling its own narrative.

Look around the continent, especially Burkina Faso’s neighbors. Paul Biya has been in power in Cameroon for over 42 years. The man is literally bedridden, old enough to be a great-grandfather to the youths he rules over, yet he is shamelessly preparing to contest again in 2025. Where are the fiery editorials from Washington Post or New York Times about this absurdity? Where is the outrage? There is none — because Biya is their man, a Western-approved dictator who has signed off his people’s future in exchange for their silence.

In Togo, Faure Gnassingbé has sat in power for nearly 20 years, after inheriting the presidency from his father who ruled for 38 years. A family dynasty in the 21st century, yet the West never screams “democracy in danger.”

In Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara broke the constitution to cling to a third term, sparking bloodshed in 2020, but still, he remains their darling. Why? Because he is “investor-friendly” — meaning friendly to French interests, friendly to Western plunder.

So why is Captain Ibrahim Traoré singled out? Why is every Western headline sharpening its knives against him? The answer is simple: because he refuses to be a puppet. Because he closed the gates of Burkina Faso to neocolonial manipulation. Because he speaks of Pan-African sovereignty, not Western aid dependency. Because he embodies the nightmare of the West — an African leader young enough to unite the next generation, brave enough to resist foreign dictates, and conscious enough to reject the poisoned handshakes of empire.

The Post calls him “authoritarian,” but what they will not print is that under his leadership, as reported by World Bank, Burkina Faso’s poverty rate is falling, security is stabilizing, and the youth are reclaiming hope in their own destiny.

According to the World Bank’s April 2025 Economic Update, Burkina Faso’s GDP surged to 4.9 % in 2024, per capita growth reached 2.5 %, inflation rose to 4.2 %, and extreme poverty dropped by 3 percentage points to 23.2 % — hardly the collapse expected from a so-called ‘strongman’ just months in power.

These facts are inconvenient to their narrative, because they do not fit the script of “African strongman” that Western editors are addicted to.

And this is where their hypocrisy bleeds through. Western leaders can bomb entire countries into the Stone Age, spy on the whole world, install puppet regimes, and bankroll genocides, yet their press never brands them as “authoritarian.” But let an African leader refuse to grant them a mere interview, and suddenly democracy is at risk. That screams foul journalism and white privilege in print.

They rage because they are losing control of the African story. For decades, their media empires were the loudspeakers of empire, the unquestioned narrators of who was “dictator” and who was “reformer.” Their words destroyed leaders like Lumumba, demonized Sankara, and cheered the lynching of Gaddafi. They thought the game would last forever.

But Africa has changed. Africans now know better. We have seen through the tricks, the labels, the headlines carefully manufactured to weaken resistance and glorify collaborators.

The youth of Africa no longer wait for the Washington Post or BBC or CNN to tell them who their leaders are. They are writing their own narratives on African soil, in African voices, for African futures.

This is why Traoré’s silence terrifies them. Because every day he refuses their stage, their grip on the African mind weakens. Every month their propaganda fails to move the people, their empire trembles. They know the days of manipulating Africa through headlines are over.

The Washington Post’s fury is proof of a dying order. It is the scream of an old empire watching its mask fall apart. They can write a thousand editorials, they can shout “authoritarian” from the rooftops, they can sulk over unanswered questions — but it will not change the truth.

The truth is that Western media no longer has power over Africa. The truth is that Africans are awake now, and propaganda no longer lands the way it use to. The truth is that the new Africa cannot be shamed back into submission by colonial ink.

Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s silence has said it all: the age of Western media manipulation is finished on African soil. Africans know better now. We are our own narrators, and no tantrum in Washington can change that.

So let’s flip the question. Why on earth should Captain Traoré explain himself to a newspaper from a country that is constantly bombarding Sudan, orchestrated coups in Ghana, assassinations in Congo, and invasions in Libya and Iraq?

Why should he bow to a media empire that has always justified imperialism under the banner of “freedom”?

The Washington Post’s article isn’t about democracy. It’s about control. It’s about the fury of a colonial mindset faced with rejection. And it proves the point Traoré makes without saying a word: the West cannot stand a free Africa.

Traoré is the new face of Pan-African leadership. And no tantrum in the Washington Post will change that. The pen of empire is broken, and Africa will never again bow to the manipulative headlines.

Written by Onyeoma Nwachinemere, for Media One Africa.

#MediaOneAfrica

[Media One Africa @MediaOneAfrica]

REMINDER | 🇲🇱🇫🇷

Since 2022, Mali has repeatedly called for an extraordinary UN Security Council session to present hard evidence that France is funding and arming terrorist groups in Mali and across the Sahel, but UN has continually refused the hearing.

The evidence reportedly includes videos of captured terrorist leaders confessing they received weapons, ammunition, intelligence, and cash from France, often delivered at night by French helicopters to designated drop points. These deliveries happened while France still had military bases across Mali, bases that were supposedly there to fight terrorism.

Instead, those bases allegedly provided coordinates of Malian army positions to the terrorists and full logistical support, the exact opposite of their stated mission.

France has denied every accusation. But when Mali asked the UN to hear the evidence, France pressured the Council to block the request.

Russia backed Mali, but the UN still refused.

Mali renews this request every year. And the UN keeps saying no.

Draw your own conclusions.

#MediaOneAfrica

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@peterrhague You’re a clown talking nonsense

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@obigoestoschool They’re using it to loot, like they do with all major infrastructural projects. Nothing special to see here tbh

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@ali_naka 90%?? You’re feeling generous this afternoon Ali!

[Captain @Bhattousai]

@tahbryce @ali_naka You are a fool, it’s just you.