🇧🇫🏭🗣 — Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso, while speaking to the public, drops a truth nuke about Africa's impoverishment: The lack of a solid industrial base and the know-how
Traore says that African peoples don't even understand how a phone and the internet works and blame everything on the colonizers
"When you wake up in the morning, you take a towel and it is imported. You finish washing yourself, you get dressed—all your clothes are imported.
Your motorcycle, your car—imported. In Africa, we produce nothing.
Everything was created by white people: motorcycles, cars, airplanes, ships. Our ancestors did not create that. What is our role?
The white man came to Africa, laid down railway tracks. And us?
The white man invented the internet and the telephone.
We use it, but we have created nothing.
We don't even know how these things work."
Traore says that African peoples don't even understand how a phone and the internet works and blame everything on the colonizers
"When you wake up in the morning, you take a towel and it is imported. You finish washing yourself, you get dressed—all your clothes are imported.
Your motorcycle, your car—imported. In Africa, we produce nothing.
Everything was created by white people: motorcycles, cars, airplanes, ships. Our ancestors did not create that. What is our role?
The white man came to Africa, laid down railway tracks. And us?
The white man invented the internet and the telephone.
We use it, but we have created nothing.
We don't even know how these things work."