In his powerful clapback to French President Emmanuel Macron’s 6 January disparaging comments about Africans, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré left no stone unturned on 13 January.
Traore (@capitaineib226 on X) pointed out that if anyone is an ingrate, it is Macron, as leader of a country that has profited off Africans, our ancestors and our resources. If God provides, then Africans have been gods to France for decades. Need we say more?
Video credit: Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (YouTube) (@rtburkina on X)
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ycDPBWfB8
https://www.youtube.com/live/wAgSoGXSYec?t=4503s
https://www.crossbordertalks.eu/2024/05/08/france-africa/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/739771.shtml
https://en.insamer.com/france-should-be-a-third-world-country.html
https://jacobin.com/2021/03/africa-colonies-france-cfa-franc-currency