Continued Kwame Nkrumah, a pan-Africanist leader and the first president of Ghana, once identified these values ​​as the basis of what he called the 'revolutionary African personality'. He insisted that these values ​​should form the basis for building socialism and African unity. Today, President Traore upholds these values, and strongly rejects individualism, a value rooted in the global capitalist and imperialist system, in favor of collectivism, which reflects Africa's long communal history. Traore acknowledges that Western leaders do not recognize African countries as legitimate sovereign entities, but he refuses to play the game they set up by the rules of their own exploitative competition. Instead, he insists that Burkina Faso's collectivism, expressed as patriotism, will be the homelands saving grace.

Continued Kwame Nkrumah, a pan-Africanist leader and the first president of Ghana, once identified these values ​​as the basis of what he called the 'revolutionary African personality'. He insisted that these values ​​should form the basis for building socialism and African unity. Today, President Traore upholds these values, and strongly rejects individualism, a value rooted in the global capitalist and imperialist system, in favor of collectivism, which reflects Africa's long communal history. Traore acknowledges that Western leaders do not recognize African countries as legitimate sovereign entities, but he refuses to play the game they set up by the rules of their own exploitative competition. Instead, he insists that Burkina Faso's collectivism, expressed as patriotism, will be the homelands saving grace.