Capitaine Ibrahim Traoré

Articles

• Burkina Faso and the return of political economy
  4 octobre, par Nishant Upadhyay

  Against the backdrop of a neoliberal order, in which resource extraction, sovereignty, labour, ownership and other economic questions continue to be depoliticised, Nishant Upadhyay asserts that developments in Burkina Faso have instead facilitated a repoliticisation of political economy, including everyday life, through mass mobilisation.
  Contemporary global political discourses are often noted for their intense polarization, in which elections are increasingly reduced from choices about (…)

• Before there is anything to punish : Burkina Faso’s new citizenship question
  18 septembre, par Abiola Isikalu

  Abiola Isikalu argues that Burkina Faso’s military government is extending state control over students and citizens by treating education and mobility as security threats, conditioning belonging on perceived loyalty rather than actual conduct.
  On July 16, 2026, when addressing the Forces vives in Yagha Province, Burkina Faso’s transitional president Captain Ibrahim Traoré referred to a statistic that seemed to take even him by surprise. “The number of young Burkinabè studying sharia law (…)