Burkina Faso: When African resistance movements gather in Koulouba
The meeting between Captain Ibrahim Traoré and former South African President Jacob Zuma in Ouagadougou on November 3, 2025, transcended diplomatic protocol, representing a significant historical moment for African sovereignty. This encounter connected two lineages of African resistance, united by a common demand for dignity and self-determination.
Jacob Zuma, a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle and direct heir to Nelson Mandela’s legacy, recognized in Captain Ibrahim Traoré a political energy not seen with such clarity since Thomas Sankara.
It is the energy of fully assumed independence a refusal of submission that links the legacies of Mandela and Sankara to the present.
Captain Ibrahim Traoré has become a continental symbol. His discourse and actions reflect a clear line: An African state that does not beg, justify, or apologize, but decides.
A state that protects its resources, restores national pride, and reinscribes its people in a horizon of dignity. This is the dynamic Zuma came to salute the reopening of a lucid, determined, and strategic Pan-African front.
Ouagadougou is now an epicentre for African sovereignty no longer a periphery, but a reference point and a direction. As Zuma emphatically stated, “Enough is enough. It’s over.”
This is not just an exclamation but a call to action: a wake-up call for African peoples to reclaim their wealth, assume their history, and for the diaspora to become an active force in liberation.
Liberation is not a declaration it is a collective construction. It is not a demand it is an act.
Olivier TOE
