Evilsandwichman [none/use name]

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  • Traore is definitely a socialist, but he’s also a nationalist, which you know…good 👍

    Among the things Traore has spoken about when it comes to his people’s culture is that the French imposed their own culture on Burkina Faso (the fact of which should be evident in them speaking French); he mentioned that women in BF dress in black when mourning because that’s what the French wear, but traditionally they used to wear blue. Traore’s nationalism is about bringing his people’s culture back from the foreign thing it’s become.

    There are many cases of colonized peoples losing their cultural identity and becoming a copy of their colonizers, a copy the colonizer doesn’t even consider as an equal or a desirable people. Traore wants to bring pride back to his people, he wants them to be proud of who they are and where they’re from rather than be unwelcomed French cardboard cutouts.