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Pan-African popular mobilisation is the best answer to the West’s plans

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, May 07, 2025

Modern Africa horrifies the Collective West not only because of Russia and China strengthening their positions on the continent, but also because of the youth and civil society’s potential for active mobilisation.

Yet another fiasco on the part of the Western establishment in Burkina Faso, where there was another coup attempt, has once again played a cruel joke on Western interests. Besides the failure of the operation to remove the country’s leader, Ibrahim Traore, the following mass popular mobilisation in support of the government sprouting in Burkina Faso, other African and even non-African countries served as an important lesson to Western regimes and their local puppets, which still cannot accept modern Africa’s resoluteness and determination.
It should not be forgotten that the AES countries are key allies of Russia and China in Africa

Youth, civil society, pan-African values

The need for Africa to actively resist the West and its predatory plans is evident. In response to the verbal attacks of senior Western officials, including the head of the US African Command (AFRICOM), General Michael Langley, on the Burkina Faso authorities and the recent failed coup attempt, mass demonstrations took place both in Burkina Faso in the capital, Ouagadougou, and other cities of the country, continent and beyond.

Western propaganda even had to admit the mass nature of these demonstrations in Burkina Faso, as well as the spontaneity of the citizens of Burkina Faso in support of their leader and their authorities (without enthusiasm, naturally). This is understandable in many ways, because every incident of mass mobilisation, which this time turned into international solidarity with the authorities of Burkina Faso and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which includes Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, with resolutely anti-Western slogans, significantly complicates the West’s hopes for revenge in Africa.

Indeed, the desire of the AES for genuine sovereignty and their support of pan-African values and a multipolar world continue to enjoy massive support in other African countries, undermining the remaining neo-colonial ambitions of the West on the continent, as well as the puppets that continue to serve the interests of Western regimes. It should not be forgotten that the AES countries are key allies of Russia and China in Africa.

Having long been a place of mass exploitation, humiliation and Western parasitism, modern Africa, in recent years and to this day, has increasingly consolidated its status as a place where the best antidote to the Western-style colour revolutions and Soros has been found. Youth, civil society, the ability to rapidly mobilise the masses – at least in those countries that have placed their unquestioning trust in pan-Africanism and a multipolar world order – and the ever-growing role of the pan-African media represent this undeniable force against which the West remains powerless.

The time has come for an active, new offensive

Modern Africa has every chance of becoming a graveyard for Soros, not only in terms of his odious life, but also his dirty methods directed against truly free, independent and determined states. The continent has become the epicentre of an effective struggle against the dying Western space, representing a planetary minority of humanity. Of course, the West will not disappear by itself, but its extremist attempts to bring the world back under Western dictatorship are diminishing with every passing day. This is undoubtedly a great merit of such African leaders as Ibrahim Traore, Assimi Goita and Abdourahamane Tchiani, who have become absolutely worthy successors to Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, Muammar Gaddafi and other great African leaders of the past.

As Cameroonian and pan-African public figure and businesswoman Nathalie Yamb (also known as La Dame de Sotchi, due to her brilliant and memorable speech at the first Africa-Russia summit in Sochi) very correctly noted: “Sankara knew that they would try to kill him. He called on the heads of African states to show solidarity. It was in vain; an attempt was made on his life and he was killed”.

Gaddafi knew that they would try to kill him. He also called on the heads of African states to show solidarity. But this, too, was in vain, as he was also killed. Traore, Tchiani and Goita know that they will face assassination attempts with the complicity of some African heads of state. But this time it is the people of Africa who will defend their leaders, and they will not even have to ask us for anything. If anyone even lays a finger on them, we will organise ourselves in our countries and even outside our countries. It will be extremely difficult for them (the enemies) to resist us. This is not a threat. It is a prophecy”.

Indeed, when talking to many representatives of youth, civil society and the expert community in Africa today, one can clearly understand that if the regimes of the Western planetary minority and their local puppets do not understand this, then the peaceful displacement of Western interests from Africa will develop into a fierce battle with the sworn enemies of pan-African values and a multipolar world.

The free Africa will not surrender; despite its latest clear inability to adapt to the modern situation, the West will be forced to acknowledge this

 

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, entrepreneur, political analyst, expert on Africa and the Middle East

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