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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024 dir. Johan Grimonprez
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Rare video footage of Funmilayo Kuti. She was one of Africa's greatest anti-colonial leaders.
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🇧🇫HOLIDAY CAMP FASO M ASBO:
State is running a Faso Mêbo (nation building) holiday camp for young Burkinabes from 12th to 21 August, to teach youngsters to be patriotic and dedicated to nation building and Africa.
Children are the future. Let's sow in them the seeds of patriotism to make them responsible citizens a… See more
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Study, organize, build, build in secret, build in private, create, create something that will outlast America — Amiri Baraka
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Replying to @tonyjballas @JelonAlexander
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🛑 🇷🇺 “As long as we are afraid of these people, nothing will work. They are not devils, they are just individuals like us. Why are we afraid of them? Can’t we fight them?”- Goïta to the AES diaspora in Moscow!
This is what @GoitaAssimi is saying:
“If you are afraid of taking the risk, it’s better to give up the fight. He greeted all the diaspora and the people who were present. He briefed them of what they came to do in Russia 🇷🇺, that is to strengthen the partnership between the two countries.
So, he reminded them that the agreements were on defense and security, diplomacy and development. He also talked about how the French wanted to partition Mali 🇲🇱.
Goïta said that the foreign troops were about 19,500, UN forces @UN_MINUSMA were 15,000 troops, the French task force Barkhane was 4,500 troops. And in 10 years, nothing was achieved.
He added that the partition of Mali 🇲🇱 is still a current threat, meaning the agenda of the imperialists is still on the table. So, he urges us to stand up against this treason.
He pointed out that the cooperation with Russia 🇷🇺 helped us recover all the big cities that were under terrorist occupation.
So, he said in terms of equipment, we get what we want and there are other military equipment that we acquired but can’t be shown to the public.
He reminded them of the creation of the confederation of the AES on July 6th, 2024 because we were facing the same problems and our peoples are the same.
Goïta said that our enemies don’t focus on just one country. If they go to Mali trying to divide us and it doesn’t work, they go to Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 or Niger 🇳🇪. Divide and conquer is still their agenda.
Does that ring a bell? Didn’t @CapitaineIb226 said earlier this month that the imperialists are trying to get one country to betray the rest of the confederation? Here’s Goïta reiterating the same thing.
The dynamic of the AES is based on the youth, he said. We must decolonize the minds because, as long as you have a complex, and are afraid to face these people, nothing will work.
They are not devils, they are individuals just like us. So, why are we afraid of them? Can’t we fight them? Where’s the problem? It’s the same thing.
They come, loot our resources and try to enslave us right on our lands. No! We will not allow that, he added. That’s the Goïta that I know! A true son of Mande! Black power 💪🏾.
This fight is a fight of the youth and it’s not a fight for one year huh. Don’t be deceived! It’s for eternity! You have to defend yourselves, claim and defend your rights! Defend your country and nation! It’s the minimum we are asking you for! I don’t know what you are afraid of.
All this fight is with the youth. Our grandparents support us, but the risk is for us to take. If you are afraid of taking the risk, you better give up the fight!
We are going to deconstruct a system that was imposed on us for 60 years. That’s what it’s all about. We are not against anyone, we are defending ourselves.
We want to be respected, we also want others to be respected. We didn’t insult anyone, we didn’t offend anyone.
But if they tell you that if you do this the whites will kill you, they will do you this and that, sorry for you, that’s on you! Why are you afraid? You must face this fight, you must fight this fight!
In life, you must know how to fight for your convictions. Everything that is happening is all about the mind, it’s about the mindset. He is right, the battle is always about the mind.
They try to intimidate you, some people have a complex, all this is about the mindset. If your mental is weak, you won’t go anywhere. Have a mind of steel!
This fight is for the youth! So, if people think this is the fight of President Tiani, President Traore, President Goïta, no, it’s a fight for eternity.
We will start the fight, others must be ready to take over. That’s what it’s all about, Goïta concluded.”
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Captain Ibrahim TRAORÉ has kicked off a bold green revolution in Guiba!
Today, the President of Burkina Faso launched a medicinal plant reserve in the rural suburbs of Guiba, as part of the 2025 National Reforestation Campaign.
The reserve will be home to a rich variety of trees and plants known for their healing properties, marking a powerful step toward preserving traditional medicine and protecting biodiversity.
A green future is growing in Burkina Faso rooted in nature, powered by purpose
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The beautiful traditional architecture of Tiebele Village, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫.
How I wish Africa could go back to our traditional ways, rather than adopting foreign systems and designs.
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no one colonizes innocently…no one colonizes with impunity either…a civilization which justifies colonization—and therefore force–is already a sick civilization.
—Aimé Césaire
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🇧🇫Burkina_Faso food security warriors trained and ready to go:
2000 valid arms ready for achieving food self-sufficiency.
The end of three months of training and three weeks of patriotic swimming at the National Volunteer Training Centre for the Defense of the Homeland in Badnogo was marked by a series of activities on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
As a prelude to their official outing scheduled for Monday, June 16, 2025, young farmers have devoted the day to donating blood, reforestation, sports and various games, with their executives from the Center, the coordination of the initiative and the staff of the National Bureau of Large Projects of the Burkina was on the menu
The first cohort of 2000 young people trained under the presidential initiative for Agricultural Production and Food Self-sufficiency (IP-P3A) wanted to mark their transition to the volunteer training center for the defense of the Homeland.
For Commander Zida Ousséni, Commander of the National Training Center of the VDP, it is a moment to also relax the atmosphere, to allow the incubates to rub with their executors and to join the useful to the pleasant.
That's at least 1,000 bags of blood removed, 3,000 plants buried at the center.
"These young people are not just farmers, they are change agents, equipped with modern farming practices and a deep sense of patriotism." "They will cultivate the land, create jobs and contribute directly to our nation's food independence, a vital step towards our collective security," said Inoussa Ouédraogo, Technical Coordinator of the IP-P3A.
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Today marks 10 years since the Charleston Church Massacre.
On 17 June 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof, then 21, shot and k*lled nine Black worshippers during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Roof had 88 bullets on him, with ‘88’ being a white supremacist numerical code for 'Heil Hitler,' as the H is the Roman alphabet's eighth letter. He intended to start a race war.
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🛑🇺🇸- This Sunday, June 15th, 2025, the AES diaspora in NYC organized a protest against the constant meddling of the imperialists into our affairs. This brother showed up to show his support
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Fun fact: Black midwives used to deliver most of the babies in the U.S. and there’s a reason that’s not true anymore.
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Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, graffiti in a public transport vehicle in Kenya 🇰🇪
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ive read a lot of books and essays about the attention economy and digital labour. but truly nothing makes the humiliation stick better than this tiktok skit recognising social media use as "volunteering for Big Tech"
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Amilcar Cabral doodle by Gerald Horne (1974), "tell no lies claim no easy victories."
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THE THOMAS SANKARA CENTRE IN NIGER IS OPEN!!!!!!!! 🇳🇪🇧🇫🇳🇪🇧🇫🇳🇪🇧🇫🇳🇪🇧🇫
That's right!!! After months and months of hard work, planning, and international support from our comrades who have contributed, The Thomas Sankara Centre has officially grown into an international organisation with a section in Niamey, Niger alongside our already existing centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina.
We give an incredible thank you to the Union of Nigerien Students (USN) as today we publicly signed our partnership agreement as they so kindly host our centre at their headquarters. We are extremely honoured to have the USN as our sister organisation in Niger.
During our opening ceremony today we were surrounded by the Minister of Education, the Ambassador of Burkina Faso, the Ambassador of Mali, wonderful comrades from various civil society organisations and trade unions as well, the family of the great Djibo Bakary, as our first several Nigérien members of The Thomas Sankara Centre.
"Burkina Books" has become "Burkina/Niger Books" and may one day more appropriately become "AES Books" or "Africa Books." We cannot wait to see and share with you how things evolve as we work across countries to spread and sharpen revolutionary Pan-African socialist political and ideological education.
LONG LIVE THE THOMAS SANKARA CENTRE !
LONG LIVE THE AES!
FORWARD EVER TOWARDS ONE UNITED SOCIALIST AFRICA!
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REMEMBERING FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI
Revolutionary Nigerian activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti joined the ancestors on this day in 1978. She was 77.
During the struggle against colonial rule, she established the Abeokuta Women’s Union. This grew to include over 20,000 members. It fought to secure political representation and educational opportunities for women.
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Thomas Sankara was a revolutionary who terrified the West, not because he had armies, but because he had anti-imperialist ideas. As president of Burkina Faso, he rejected foreign aid, resisted French influence and demanded that Africa produce, transform and consume its own goods. Our Facts of the Week breakdown why he was hated and seen as a threat, not just to France, but to the entire neo-colonial order.




































