Everyone’s praising the State for fixing what foreign puppets broke in the Sahel — and fair enough, big change sometimes needs a central force. But let’s not pretend the answer is just “more government.” The real issue was never public vs. private — it was control. A big government can still be a foreign puppet. A free market can still be rigged. The solution isn’t about size — it’s about building a system that can’t be hijacked. Power must be decentralized, transparent, and rooted in the people — or history will just repeat itself in a new uniform.

The point is that there is no system that works for every country in every situation, there is no one size fits all. Burkinabe system solved some very hard problems that other African systems failed to solve for decades, it’s not a perfect system, but it is the best model for other similar African countries to emulate.