Can Ghana Join Burkina Faso’s Revolution? | w/ Kwesi Pratt Jnr.

As Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali nationalize billions in gold wealth and post record economic growth, neighboring Ghana hosts the US military. Kwesi Pratt Jnr., general secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to break down why the Sahel’s “patriotic revolution” is a critical first step toward African liberation — and why real transformation demands something much more: “resetting the world” entirely at the UN, the IMF, World Bank, and WTO.

While Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré has inspired the Global South, and Ghana’s John Mahama has brought global attention to reparations at the United Nations, Pratt argues that true revolutions are led by the working class, not politicians. And from the assassination of Patrice Lumumba to present-day terrorism targeting the Sahel states, Western intelligence agencies have a long history of destabilizing Africa’s liberation movements — a tradition Pratt says Ukraine now seems eager to join.

Burkina Faso is nationalizing its gold, Ibrahim Traoré has become a symbol of a new West African sovereignty. But is the Sahel’s “patriotic revolution” enough?

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