I assume that the black and white picture is of Ibrahim Traore, right? I wonder if the international press giving him this kind of treatment is going to boost his popularity inside Burkina Faso, given that Sankara was also rather unpopular in the West.

terrifyingly based

Terrifying for whom?

Oh no, won’t someone please think of the poor western corporations, extracting huge mineral wealth at the cost of the local environment, and their African employees’ health and leaving behind poverty.