Portrait of Captain Ibrahim Traoré
Series: “If All Black Men Were Pacifist”
Size 24 x 36 inches
Medium: Screen print on paper using red, green, yellow, and black ink; portrait rendered in black archival Micron pen and white charcoal. 
 
Revolution Is Clarity
At just 34, Captain Ibrahim Traoré became Burkina Faso’s transitional president in 2022, propelled by youth movements and military defiance against foreign control. Traoré speaks to a new generation of African resistance, one that refuses symbolic independence without real autonomy.
Like Black soldiers and senators during America’s Reconstruction, Traoré represents the struggle not just to survive oppression, but to lead through it. His story asks: when is revolution necessary, and who gets to define peace? His leadership echoes the unfinished battles of the post-Civil War U.S.—where freedom was declared, but justice was deferred.