@rabbitholebot That’s how it’s done in Africa too. You wonder why most African countries have the same problems with their presidents… all the presidents that had ruled Africa follow one pattern. If one tries to do something different he gets assassinated.Our legend “ Ibrahim traore “can tell!
🚨BREAKING: China is now closing mosques and converting them into barns for raising chickens as a way to fight radicalism. China officially considers Islam a ‘mental illness.
Christianity should be next.😏
Captain Ibrahim Traoré stood before Burkina Faso's engineering students and said what no African president had said out loud.
"We will no longer support long essays. If you are an engineering student, for your thesis, you must manufacture, copy, or build something."
Then he gave them the line that deserves to be carved into the gate of every university on this continent:
"Copy everything you can copy except theory."
Read that again.
A continent that imports its machines, its medicines, and its refineries is finally telling its brightest minds: we do not need another paper about engineering. We need you to do engineering.
Traoré is not attacking education. He is attacking the distance between the classroom and the nation. For sixty years, African universities have produced graduates who can describe a bridge but cannot build one. Who can write two hundred pages on industrialisation while the country imports every bolt and bearing it needs. Who leave campus with a certificate in one hand and nothing in the other.
He is not asking students to invent from nothing. He is telling them to reverse-engineer. To take what already exists, understand it, reproduce it, and improve it. That is how Japan built its car industry. That is how China built its factories. They copied. They built. They improved. Then they surpassed the people they learned from.
His government is putting infrastructure behind the words—technical high schools tied to local economies, a technological academy, and a state that now owns the machines and asphalt plants to build its own highways.
The old model was designed to produce clerks for a colonial administration. It survived independence because it was convenient for the elite. Their children went to Paris. Yours got a diploma and a bus fare home.
"Copy everything you can copy except theory."
Copy the machine. Copy the process. Copy the blueprint. Then build it here, with your hands, for your people.
That is not a downgrade of education. It is the upgrade Africa has needed for sixty years.
They call him a "dictator" because he refused to let his country remain a slave to France.
Ibrahim Traoré kicked the French military out, took back the gold mines, and told the West: "We will not beg for our own resources."
Look at Macron's face in this video. That is the look of an empire losing its grip. They want you to fear Traoré. We see a patriot.
Copy the link to this post and send it to your family group chat. Wake them up. Bookmark it. Teach your children what a real leader looks like. 🇧🇫✊🏿
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