“Fear… You’re right, that’s the question everyone is asking. It’s the phobia of the Burkinabe people in fact. When they think about that, they’re a little scared for me. For my part, I am not afraid. We don’t know fear. We have faced death many times. We met her… We don’t know, God made us alive. We give thanks to God. So we don’t know fear. But, we analyzed the past. In some aspects, perhaps President Thomas Sankara made mistakes. When he said for example, let friends betray friendship. It’s not up to us to betray friendship. I think that sentence won out. … We’re not going to make the same mistakes again. And that’s for sure. And imperialism, as he said, is a very bad student. When he is chased away, he returns with the same methods. We are following, we will not let the same mistakes happen again.” Excerpt from the interview with the president of the transition given to AfroMédia when he was asked if he was not afraid of suffering the same fate as Thomas Sankara, betrayed by his friends and assassinated in 1987 during a coup d’état.
