Quick, let's start tricking the libs into supporting this by comparing it to Wakanda, before the State Department starts their propaganda!
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this would 100% work on some people I know
The last bit literally almost made me cry, Burkina Faso being set back on the path Thomas Sankara was leading it down. Good things actually fucking happening for once
Important to be cautious. Hope for the best but don’t be shocked by worse. Pessimism of the intellect optimism of the will.
I’d be interested whether other comrades with could suggest actually good source and analysis (preferably in French) that shed light on the current domestic situation in terms of the internal, domestic politics and policies of the current government in Burkina Faso. Really hope that it’s a case of genuine revolutionary currents within the military and not simply a leveraging of the popularity of pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist language and ideas and individuals like Sankara to ensure political legitimacy.
Still wondering if this emoji was named sankara-bass to annoy me personally
That's a fucking guitar, revisionist scum!
Given the time frame when he got it, I think there's a solid chance that it's a USA-made Fender Stratocaster. In other photos, you can tell that it's the non-CBS era headstock, and it has a rosewood fingerboard. The 1954-1958 models only came with maple fingerboards, and the chonky CBS headstocks started in 1965 (through 1981). His band, Tout à coup Jazz, was mostly active in the 70s (with one show in '84), so that is most likely a second-gen Stratocaster (1959-1964) in either Dakota Red or Fiesta Red. That looks like gold hardware, too, which was an available factory option in '59-'64. (If that photo is from '82 or later, then all bets are off, because that was when Fender started producing them in Japan, pre-Squier.)
Other angles:
You might as well be speaking Thai for most of this for how well I follow, but I appreciate the thoroughness of the analysis