Traore

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s transitional leader, has cultivated a striking public image—sporting designer military fatigues, leather gloves, and a service pistol, even in the heat…

Across the Black world — from Harlem to Lagos, Kingston to Johannesburg — eyes are fixed on Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the youthful president of Burkina Faso whose leadership embodies the hope…

In a modest auto body shop in Lagos, 39-year-old Kehinde Sanni spends his days fixing dented cars — and praising a man he has never met from a country he has never visited: Captain…