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Podcast: The Daily Discourse
Episode: Comparing Ibrahim Traore to Thomas Sankara
Description: So many of you have been calling the show commenting on what Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore is doing in turning the country around. He has been compared to his late predecessor, Thomas Sankara who was assassinated in 1987 after being in power for only four years. He managed to turn that country around by opening up education to all including women, vaccinating millions of people, cutting government spending, planting 10-million trees, reducing cars used by cabinet ministers all in four years. Traore is praised for decolonizing Burkina Faso by enshrining national languages and dropping French in schools and as an...