A socialist-led union of africa would be incredible. I hope they find the means to expand it.
Oh look another country needs DEMOCRACY from america.
france and the u.s. have been withdrawing from their bases there. after they couldn't goad ghana and nigeria into a preemptive guardianship of free and fair elections it became clear they'd at least need to beat a tactical withdrawal from their democracy efforts.
Lmao Sahel manages to get a regional union while Central America spends 200 years trying to reestablish their former union. The future is in Africa.
Are any of these guys anything like the GOAT Sankara, or are they just aligning with countries other than the West?
traore has explicitly claimed to be guided by sankara thought, if i recall
https://hoodcommunist.org/2024/06/28/burkina-faso-la-patrie-ou-la-mort-venceremos/
tl;dr: For Traore, yes.
source (for my quotes): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp38v5p6g35o
Speaking at Saturday’s meeting in the Nigerien capital, Niamey, the country's leader, Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, said that in the place of Ecowas, the junta chiefs wanted to build a community of sovereign peoples "far from the control of foreign powers. A community of peace, solidarity, prosperity based on our African values.”
looking good foreign policy-wise. trying to "engage with" or at this point even improving relations with the US ends badly so often it is virtually never even worth it.
Speaking at the summit, Capt Traoré went on to say that "this continent has suffered and continues to suffer from the fire of the imperialists. These imperialists have only one cliché in mind: 'Africa is the empire of slaves'."
on the nose with this one too. kinda ironic how much responsibility for colonial and post-colonial slavery goes towards the West
a luta continua!
The three countries were already in ECOWAS, they got suspended because each of their governments were overtaken by coups, this agreement is between leaders who overthrew the previous government by force.
The coup leaders are choosing to secede from a larger confederation of states, together. Better than the worst case scenario but hardly a real win in context.
Don't listen to or upvote this nerd. The western comprador governments did indeed get ousted by the respective militaries who had and have overwhelming support of their populace. This was an unambiguously positive series events unless you're pro-imperialism and pro-colonialism. Yes, 5 months ago the three countries in alliance chose to withdraw from imperialist-backed ECOWAS (who earlier wanted to invade Niger unless the latter reinstated their former colonial puppet leader) but this is a new development and a great step forward towards African socialism and pan-Africanism. Given the context, it is an even bigger win.
you seem lost, so i'll explain:
the governments they overthrew were compradors selling out their own people for some scraps from their french neocolonial overlords. the lands of niger, mali, and burkina faso are rich in gold, uranium, oil, and diamonds, and yet the people have lived like slaves. force was clearly justified if the previous governments were unwilling to cede power peacefully. they were suspended from ecowas at the obvious behest of france and the u.s., countries notable for their willingness (and outright glee) in using or abetting violence to effect regime change whenever it suits their own interests. let's not pretend that the suspension was because of the coups, it was because the coup leaders are not obedient dogs of the empire.
the win here is that they're formalizing and solidifying an alliance against western imperialist theft of their natural resources and labor.
The coup leaders are heads of governments with a popular mandate who overthrew unpopular governments that ruled exclusively thru force for the benefit of French corporations
ECOWAS is a imperial cartel that also exclusively operates for the benefit of western corporations (i.e. cocoa slaves) the birth of this confederation is a step in the right direction and is extremely popular in those three countries
Sankara also couped the French-comprador regime. It was right then, and it is right now.
I haven't read too much about this all yet, and I hope it turns out well, but I am somewhat skeptical that all three could become corrupt popular nationalist projects. That's better than their previous position as imperialised countries with colonial armies still roaming around, though. And the word 'corrupt' gets thrown around a lot as if the West isn't infinitely more corrupt in all.
