WATCH: Zuma, Traoré unite in call for African solidarity

By Marcus Moloko

Former South African president and MK Party leader Jacob Zuma visited Burkina Faso, where he met with President Ibrahim Traoré to discuss Africa’s colonial legacy, current challenges, and the need for greater continental unity.

“They continued, in a sense, indirectly, to take everything in Africa… and they still do it today,” Zuma said as he opened his message revisiting the continent’s long history of colonization.

“Africa was colonized many, many centuries [ago] and oppressed,” he said.

His statements underscored Zuma’s belief that colonial powers never truly relinquished control, but instead adapted their methods to maintain influence.

In his address to the people of Burkina Faso, Zuma acknowledged the efforts of African nations to