You might need to hear that I don’t have any issue with Sankara, or you. I have issues with the meme you shared being essentially fantasy.
Except every one of the points you disputed has been proven to be correct, you simply don’t like that they’re being portrayed positively, because it apparently contradicts some universal narrative you’ve constructed for yourself.
Did you even read that article you linked to? Because I have, many times since it was published in 2016. It only supports me,
Fuck’s sake, I see your reading comprehension is as poor as your math.
Reij, Garrity and other scientists working on the ground knew what Wade and other political leaders did not: that farmers in Niger and Burkina Faso, in particular, had discovered a cheap, effective way to regreen the Sahel. They did so by using simple water harvesting techniques and protecting trees that emerged naturally on their farms.
Reij, now based in Amsterdam, began working in the Sahel when the soil literally was blowing away during dust storms. After years away, Reij returned to Niger and Burkina Faso in the summer of 2004. He was stunned by what he saw, green where there had been nothing but tan, denuded land. He quickly secured funding for the first of several studies looking at farming in villages throughout Burkina Faso and Niger.
Innovative farmers in Burkina Faso had adapted years earlier by necessity. They built zai, a grid of deep planting pits across rock-hard plots of land that enhanced water infiltration and retention during dry periods. They built stone barriers around fields to contain runoff and increase infiltration from rain.
Over two years traveling through Burkina Faso and Niger, they uncovered a remarkable metamorphosis. Hundreds of thousands of farmers had embraced ingenious modifications of traditional agriculture practices, transforming large swaths into productive land, improving food and fuel production for about 3 million people.
Tangem concedes that projects in countries like Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali are much more advanced than others. Cameroon and Ghana, he adds in an interview from his office in Addis Ababa, began work just this year.
“But looking at what has been achieved in the last 20 years in the Sahel, the large-scale restoration in Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali,” he adds, “I am more optimistic now than when I started working in the Sahel in 1978.”
I’m sorry that your reading comprehension is apparently below the level of basic literacy. I hope you get better.
and makes zero mention of Sanakara.
“It doesn’t mention Sankara, who was instrumental in Burkina Faso’s green initiatives started in the 1980s, which is exactly the period of transformation - through the crisis in the late 70s to a rapid improvement in regreening and retention of trees seen in a handful of countries, Burkina Faso notably included, in the 90s and 2000s; therefore, this doesn’t relate to Sankara’s initiative in the 1980s at all.”
Yes. Of course. Silly me. You didn’t see those trees in Burkina Faso, so obviously this article is lying, too. Otherwise you might have to walk back a dumbass claim you made, refuted by an article that you claim to have ‘repeatedly read’ since 2016.
Next, you don’t even know what the meme says.
I literally do, because I possess basic literacy; a skill which is apparently less common online than expected.
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From a source I didn’t use or cite, how lovely.
That’s the 60%. It’s all over the internet.
Oh, well, if it’s all over the internet, it must be the only possible interpretation. Reduced to a boolean.
Or, or-and this may be shocking- that’s a misreading of the actual statistics, which is an increase of Burkina Faso’s literacy rate from 8% to 13% or 13% to 22% (depending on whether you prefer the numbers of the World Bank or Burkina Faso itself) - in both cases, an increase of ~60%.
That’s someone else doing Sankara dirty, not you.
“Doing Sankara dirty” being… highlighting his achievements, which you then universally dismiss because “Nothing lasts in the Sahel” and “African Marxists have never accomplished anything”?
There’s no reason to double down without doing due diligence,
How ironic.
I notice you haven’t elaborated on any of your fucking insane points that I disputed about how neither the ability to utilize the written word in French nor local languages is ‘real’ literacy, by some bizarre mental gymnastics of your’s.
Plus you only want a fight and to discard any evidence I provide for you. Like a site filled with actual information about the guy in this vague meme, which you ignore. Even though it’s clearly the “source” of the “data” for this meme. Ugh, this is like talking to MAGA people on Facebook, reality is bad, feelings only good.
About the literacy issue, French was the official language for any former French colony, and therefore the only metric of “literacy” for many francophone counties in Africa after independence was, perversely, French. It varies by country, but ECOWAS countries didn’t start officially recognizing local languages until much later.
Teaching literacy in local languages, however, is not so easy. There are no manuals or materials, and the French school system that everyone kept well into today is extremely wrote memorization based. I had a friend who did this all from the ground up 20 years ago in a widely spoken language, and everything was starting from nothing, all to get about 100 village kids to read the language they already spoke.
Why keep French? Because the elites use it to perpetuate classism. They all have flats in Paris, so none of this affects them, and only hold back the county because most French-speakers on earth are in West Africa, so they end up learning Arabic or English to try and get a university degree outside Francophone West Africa that is worth their time. It was super bold of Niger to drop French recently, as long as they sorted out how to deal with 4 main local languages that everyone speaks one or two of.
Anyway, I’m going to bed, so you have fun saying more irate things that just point to your own lack of knowledge and willingness to learn. This is not a conversion, it’s a rant prompt for you, which is not worth my time. Have a nice day. Or not, you pick.
Apparently, you also aren’t reading a short article, one that you claimed to have read numerous times in the past.
Plus you only want a fight and to discard any evidence I provide for you.
What evidence did you provide for me?
Like a site filled with actual information about the guy in this vague meme, which you ignore.
… the only site you cited you claimed as a source of mis information, that you claimed the meme was perpetuating; not as a source of accurate information. Jesus Christ, can you not keep your own arguments straight?
About the literacy issue, French was the official language for any former French colony, and therefore the only metric of “literacy” for many francophone counties in Africa after independence was, perversely, French. It varies by country, but ECOWAS countries didn’t start officially recognizing local languages until much later.
Teaching literacy in local languages, however, is not so easy. There are no manuals or materials, and the French school system that everyone kept well into today is extremely wrote memorization based. I had a friend who did this all from the ground up 20 years ago in a widely spoken language, and everything was starting from nothing, all to get about 100 village kids to read the language they already spoke.
None of that says anything about why you rejected both as ‘real’ literacy, but I guess non-sequiturs are all you have left to defend the bizarre points of “Writing the local language in Arabic isn’t real literacy” and “Being literate in French isn’t real literacy”.
Anything to make sure those scary African Marxists… how did you put it? “have any sort of success at all”?
Except every one of the points you disputed has been proven to be correct, you simply don’t like that they’re being portrayed positively, because it apparently contradicts some universal narrative you’ve constructed for yourself.
Fuck’s sake, I see your reading comprehension is as poor as your math.
I’m sorry that your reading comprehension is apparently below the level of basic literacy. I hope you get better.
“It doesn’t mention Sankara, who was instrumental in Burkina Faso’s green initiatives started in the 1980s, which is exactly the period of transformation - through the crisis in the late 70s to a rapid improvement in regreening and retention of trees seen in a handful of countries, Burkina Faso notably included, in the 90s and 2000s; therefore, this doesn’t relate to Sankara’s initiative in the 1980s at all.”
Yes. Of course. Silly me. You didn’t see those trees in Burkina Faso, so obviously this article is lying, too. Otherwise you might have to walk back a dumbass claim you made, refuted by an article that you claim to have ‘repeatedly read’ since 2016.
I literally do, because I possess basic literacy; a skill which is apparently less common online than expected.
From a source I didn’t use or cite, how lovely.
Oh, well, if it’s all over the internet, it must be the only possible interpretation. Reduced to a boolean.
Or, or-and this may be shocking- that’s a misreading of the actual statistics, which is an increase of Burkina Faso’s literacy rate from 8% to 13% or 13% to 22% (depending on whether you prefer the numbers of the World Bank or Burkina Faso itself) - in both cases, an increase of ~60%.
“Doing Sankara dirty” being… highlighting his achievements, which you then universally dismiss because “Nothing lasts in the Sahel” and “African Marxists have never accomplished anything”?
How ironic.
I notice you haven’t elaborated on any of your fucking insane points that I disputed about how neither the ability to utilize the written word in French nor local languages is ‘real’ literacy, by some bizarre mental gymnastics of your’s.
FFS, I’m on mobile, I’m not swiping you a novel.
Plus you only want a fight and to discard any evidence I provide for you. Like a site filled with actual information about the guy in this vague meme, which you ignore. Even though it’s clearly the “source” of the “data” for this meme. Ugh, this is like talking to MAGA people on Facebook, reality is bad, feelings only good.
About the literacy issue, French was the official language for any former French colony, and therefore the only metric of “literacy” for many francophone counties in Africa after independence was, perversely, French. It varies by country, but ECOWAS countries didn’t start officially recognizing local languages until much later.
Teaching literacy in local languages, however, is not so easy. There are no manuals or materials, and the French school system that everyone kept well into today is extremely wrote memorization based. I had a friend who did this all from the ground up 20 years ago in a widely spoken language, and everything was starting from nothing, all to get about 100 village kids to read the language they already spoke.
Why keep French? Because the elites use it to perpetuate classism. They all have flats in Paris, so none of this affects them, and only hold back the county because most French-speakers on earth are in West Africa, so they end up learning Arabic or English to try and get a university degree outside Francophone West Africa that is worth their time. It was super bold of Niger to drop French recently, as long as they sorted out how to deal with 4 main local languages that everyone speaks one or two of.
Anyway, I’m going to bed, so you have fun saying more irate things that just point to your own lack of knowledge and willingness to learn. This is not a conversion, it’s a rant prompt for you, which is not worth my time. Have a nice day. Or not, you pick.
Apparently, you also aren’t reading a short article, one that you claimed to have read numerous times in the past.
What evidence did you provide for me?
… the only site you cited you claimed as a source of mis information, that you claimed the meme was perpetuating; not as a source of accurate information. Jesus Christ, can you not keep your own arguments straight?
None of that says anything about why you rejected both as ‘real’ literacy, but I guess non-sequiturs are all you have left to defend the bizarre points of “Writing the local language in Arabic isn’t real literacy” and “Being literate in French isn’t real literacy”.
Anything to make sure those scary African Marxists… how did you put it? “have any sort of success at all”?