Nigeria, May 9 -- I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones - Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere, Mandela, Sankara, etc. I know because of the thoughtless and uninformed speed with which young Africans are going in support of Captain Ibrahim Traore as the new hero based mainly on the success of a Russian propaganda video company producing tons of messages about this "greet" African who came into power through a coup d'etat in September 2022. The propaganda that people are falling for is cheap, unprofessional and poorly made.

The videos all portray him as a hero combatting Western imperialism and accelerating the development of his country and people. Take the example of a recent v...