Africans time for change
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00:00 The young captain was having a conversation with the pupils, and here is what he sang,
00:04 "I was telling you a while ago in school they were telling us that we couldn't do it here.
00:09 They lied to us.
00:11 We grow wheat here and it works well, and we will develop it.
00:15 Some people have started this year I was able to see people who did it, as part of the presidential
00:19 initiative, and I was told that in the past some were able to do it, and they produced
00:24 it well.
00:25 Currently, we are sowing wheat in some farmlands, as part due the presidential initiative.
00:32 What you eat must be produced here.
00:34 So, this is why I say that we will teach you many things, and we will review the curricula
00:39 they teach you.
00:40 For those who drink coffee, they told us that your coffee, chocolate, it is only in the
00:45 countries with abundant rainfalls, that here is only savannah desert, it does not rain,
00:51 we cannot farm.
00:53 Again they lied to us.
00:55 It's not true.
00:56 Coffee grows well here.
00:58 Cocoa grows well too.
00:59 There are people here who have the farms here, even in Oagadougou here.
01:03 There are people who have cocoa trees in their yards.
01:06 This means that chocolate that children envy those from well-to-do families can be manufactured
01:11 here in Burkina, and all the children can eat chocolate in Burkina.
01:15 We found out it is possible.
01:17 As for milk, why do we have to import it?
01:20 We can do it.
01:22 I just want to tell you that there are many things that they never told us the truth about.
01:27 You guys are lucky.
01:28 We are now teaching you, and we promise you that we will do all we can so that you can
01:33 eat your fill.
01:35 As we say, you will eat well in the morning before you go to school, you will go to school
01:39 for free, you will eat lunch, you will have fun, and in the afternoon when you return
01:45 home you will have fun in the neighborhood, then in the evening you will learn and review
01:50 your homework and sleep.
01:52 This is the dream we have.
01:54 As long as the children in Burkina are not in these conditions, our fight will not stop,
01:59 okay?
02:00 Claps.
02:01 So we know these are your aspirations and it is right and legal.
02:05 Any parent is fighting for this.
02:07 Even those who do not have children fight in the hope of having children and to take
02:10 care of them so that they can live in better conditions and be better than them.
02:16 This is the fight of everyone.
02:17 This is the fight of every generation.
02:20 We are lucky God gave us everything.
02:22 Do you know that everywhere in Burkina we can farm?
02:25 Everywhere.
02:26 In the Sahel where they tell you it is the desert, it is only sand.
02:30 We can farm.
02:31 As for us, we have been lied to so much.
02:34 It is the brainwashing of the colonizer.
02:37 He did that so that we may not think, but we finally found out that everything was a
02:41 lie.
02:42 Damn lie.
02:43 Emphasis is mine.
02:44 If God left many lakes in that desert, he knows why.
02:48 We can farm everything in Burkina.
02:50 We can do everything.
02:51 The land is fertile.
02:52 And there are so many natural things in Burkina that we never planted.
02:56 But they were here, isn't it?
02:58 Have you ever learned how to plant a shea tree in Burkina?
03:02 You were born and found them already here, right?
03:05 It is there in the wild in nature.
03:07 You know it is a gift from God.
03:09 There are many things in the shea fruit.
03:12 You have the shea butter.
03:13 That is oil.
03:14 Do you know that there is chocolate in it?
03:16 There are seven derivatives in the shea fruit.
03:19 You also have the Parchea biglobosa, also known as the African locust bean, which is
03:24 a natural fruit.
03:25 We have many things.
03:27 It is not only the minerals in the soil.
03:29 Even with the soil, we were told that it is ferritic soil, that it is not fertile.
03:34 Everything is a lie.
03:35 You see that today there is so much gold in Burkina, but it is just poorly managed.
03:40 Our mission is to well manage these resources and to take good care of you, so that you
03:45 can be in your basic rights, to lead a good life, to go to school, and that we may protect
03:50 you, and also that you may fulfill your duties, because your duties are very important, aren't
03:56 they?
03:57 You must fulfill your duties.
03:59 Don't stop only at your rights.
04:01 When people tell you have rights, add and duties.
04:05 You have duties towards your parents, seniors, the homeland.
04:08 You have duties.
04:10 Someone mentioned traffic lights and all that.
04:12 You may see a grown person who doesn't respect the traffic lights, but there are schools
04:16 where they teach you, and we wish it be in all the schools.
04:20 All right folks, our educational system inherited from colonialism is one of the worst legacies
04:25 we still have in Francophone countries.
04:28 There are subjects and curricula that are obsolete since the 1960s.
04:33 I told a friend that France even controlled our educational system to the extent some
04:37 programs such as mining are never taught in schools and universities.
04:42 Too bad, but things are changing.
04:44 By the way, Captain, before joining the army, holds a degree in geology, so when you see
04:50 that he put emphasis on the land and kept repeating that everything they taught us was
04:54 a damn lie, he knows what he is talking about.
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