Renowned investigative journalist David Hundeyin has said any attempt to manufacture a narrative against Burkina Faso’s interim leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, will end in futility, asserting that Africa is no longer fertile ground for the kind of foreign interventionist agendas that led to the downfall of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
According to him on X, Hundeyin argued that the US-led Western military-industrial complex, usually cloaked in humanitarian rhetoric, will find it impossible to replay its old playbook in the Sahel.
“No attempts to narratively set up Ibrahim Traoré will fly,” Hundeyin said. “The empire vastly overstepped when it did what it did to Gaddafi, and in doing so, ensured that such naked imperial thuggery will be impossible to sell to Africans ever again.”
Recalling the NATO intervention in Libya, which was justified under the guise of protecting civilians, Hundeyin noted that many Africans were once persuaded to support such actions because of the portrayal of Gaddafi as a dictator.
However, he says that the façade has crumbled, and the continent has become increasingly immune to Western moral framing.
“That playbook won’t work anymore—not even on leaders like Yoweri Museveni or Bola Tinubu, let alone someone like Ibrahim Traoré,” he emphasized. “Once Africans refuse to cooperate with the narrative, the war is already lost for them.”
Hundeyin also slammed the structural cowardice of what he described as the “U.S. empire,” claiming it relies on coalition warfare and media manipulation rather than direct confrontation.
READ ALSO: How David Hundeyin Sued Bola Tinubu Leading to Release of His 1992 Drugs Activities in US
“The U.S. never attacks alone. It always needs an oyibo gang—plus South Korea and Japan—and always needs its media to build a false consensus before bombing a country that never attacked it.”
Describing the U.S. as a “bully that only wins fixed fights,” he pointed out that the rise of independent media voices and the spread of unfiltered information have made it more difficult for powerful nations to manufacture consent for intervention.
“This is the age of information—including information that whitey doesn’t want entering African heads. And there’s nothing they can do about it except shadow-ban people on Twitter and pretend it’s working,” he concluded.
Traoré, who seized power in a popular military-led uprising in 2022, has grown in popularity among segments of the African public for his outspoken stance against foreign interference and neocolonial exploitation.
Follow the Parallel Facts channel on WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCQSAoHgZWiDjR3Kn2E
