Captain Ibrahim Traoré just told Burkina Faso's engineering students that their thesis must be something they can hold in their hands. Not a bound document. Not a stack of paper. Something built.
"If you are an engineer, for your thesis, you must manufacture, copy, or build something. Otherwise, we will no longer support the writing of long papers" .
He said it in Yaadga, in northern Burkina Faso, speaking directly to young people and technical students. The message was blunt. Degrees should build nations, not grow egos .
And then he gave them the line that should be printed on every African university wall: "Copy everything you can copy except theory" .
That is not an insult to education. It is a demand for relevance. A continent that needs machines, factories, tools, and roads keeps producing paperwork instead, and calls it progress. The thesis gets filed on a shelf where no one reads it again. Nothing is built. Nothing changes on the ground .
Traoré is not telling students to invent everything from scratch. He is telling them to reverse-engineer. To take what already exists, understand it, reproduce it, and then improve it. That is how China built its industrial base. That is how Japan built its car industry. They copied, they built, they improved, and then they surpassed the people they learned from .
His government is putting infrastructure behind the rhetoric. The Technological Academy of Faso at Pabré is designed to train Burkinabè engineers at home rather than sending them abroad and hoping they return. Forty new university lecture complexes are under construction across the country .
The old model produced graduates who could write about engineering. Traoré wants graduates who can do engineering.
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