The Profile of the Main Opposition Candidate Is Issa Tchiroma Bakary a Distractor or a Liberator? By The Afrisocrat Political Desk | 2025 Presidential Election Special Early Life & Education Born on 10 September 1949 in Garoua, northern Cameroon, Issa Tchiroma Bakary grew up in a respected family where his father served as an advisor to the Lamido. This upbringing instilled in him deep values of responsibility, discipline, and service to the community. After early schooling in Douala, he pursued technical training in transport and materials engineering before traveling to Paris. At the University of Paris (Jussieu), he prepared for a PhD in mathematics before redirecting his focus to mechanical engineering at ISMCM, graduating as a railway engineer. Returning home, he worked at Regifercam in Douala, embodying the discipline and pragmatism of a technocrat committed to service. Imprisonment & Political Rise In...
IBRAHIM TRAORÉ AND THE OLD COLONIAL TRICK: HOW THE WEST DESTROYS LIBERATORS Throughout history, oppressors have perfected one simple method to eliminate liberators: “paint the dog black before killing it.” From Ruben Um Nyobé and Ernest Ouandié in Cameroon, to Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, Patrice Lumumba in Congo, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the USA, and even Nelson Mandela before the world later embraced him, the playbook never changes. The West first brands them criminals, dictators, terrorists, or threats to stability. Then the media takes over, the people are deceived, and when the assassin’s bullet comes, the masses cheer. Today, the same script is being written against Captain Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso. Young, fearless, and unapologetically Pan-African, he has become the most loved African president in the world, the nightmare of Western powers, and the inspiration of millions. Yet the West already paints him a...