Burkina Faso Life President Forced Stepping Down By Peoples Power, May Be Beginning Of Africa’s New Revolution. What some are calling the Black spring, inspired by insurrections in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and Libya during the 2011 Arab spring, could be a force that rolls through Africa and ushers in a new era of leadership throughout the continent. RADIO FREE BUGANDA LWOMUKAGA NGA, 08 OCTOBER 2014 KU SSAAWA 13:11 While Burkina Faso is a small francophone country that few would likely be able to find on a map, the West African nation’s popular rebellion may be the catalyst for a wave of revolt poised to take numerous countries. “This is a ‘sub-Saharan Spring’ and it must continue against all the presidents who are trying to hang on to power in Africa,” Burkinabe student Lucien Trinnou told Reuters on Friday. “The move to extend the presidential term further just was the final trigger that set off people’s anger.” What has largely kept major revolutions from happening in sub-Saharan Africa is a lack of tools to organize and mobilize large populations. But with the growth of the middle class in some countries and the expansion of Internet access and other social networking technologies, more people are joining large-scale protest movements. “We did not witness an African Spring, but that does not mean we are safe,” Hamisi Kigwangalla, a member of parliament in Tanzania, which borders Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo wrote in July.”We have our own generation of corrupt and autocratic leaders and bureaucrats, or what George Ayittey named the ‘Hippo Generation.ted/speakers/george_ayittey’ There are growing inequities, rising rates of unemployment, and an unbearable cost of living. We also have an active youth that constitutes a huge chunk of our population, as well as a rapidly expanding literate and urbanised middle class.” Link newsone/3069404/burkina-faso-protest/.VF1oyW3onzM.facebook RADIO FREE BUGANDA LWOMUKAGA NGA, 08 OCTOBER 2014 KU SSAAWA 13:11
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