Bonus: The Coup Leader Who’s Become an Anti-Western Hero in Africa: Ibrahim Traore

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Three years ago, Ibrahim Traoré was a junior army officer in Burkina Faso’s armed forces. Today, he has emerged as a surprising anti-Western hero preaching self-reliance and resilience with fans across Africa and beyond. But what happened to get us to this point? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.7	There is something really interesting happening in Burkina Faso.
0:37.3	If you saw a
0:37.8	recent video about the unrest that is going and has been going on in Libya, then you know that we've
0:42.8	recently spoken about the life and regime of Muammar Gaddafi. We're going to be talking about
0:46.3	the man who appears to be the reincarnation of numerous different past African leaders and why
0:52.8	it is that he's threatening the status quo in Africa.
0:56.6	When I say that this video is going to be filled with different kinds of propaganda,
1:00.0	yes, there are all different kinds of propaganda that are being used against and for this man
1:05.4	because there are all kinds of different entities that seem to fear what it is that he represents
1:09.9	more so than any
1:11.0	other type of African leader. So who is this dangerous African dictator, you may wonder?
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