'The question becomes unavoidable: Who was the dependency really serving all along?'
BCD: It finally slipped out — and now the global financial world is scrambling to explain it away. In a moment few expected, the IMF has effectively admitted that Burkina Faso can run its economy without external supervision. No bailout plea. No emergency conditions. No “structural adjustment” sermon. Just an uncomfortable truth the system wasn’t built to accept.
For decades, institutions like the IMF positioned themselves as indispensable to African economies — setting budgets, dictating reforms, and holding leverage through debt. Burkina Faso just disrupted that entire model by proving something radical: economic discipline without dependency is possible.
We unpack how the country stabilized revenue, tightened state control over resources, redirected spending toward production, and reduced reliance on foreign financing — all while under intense political and security pressure. Why did the IMF have to acknowledge this? Why are Western analysts suddenly changing their tone? And why does this moment terrify systems built on perpetual African “assistance”?
This isn’t praise. It’s exposure. Because when an institution designed to manage dependency admits it’s no longer needed, the question becomes unavoidable: Who was the dependency really serving all along?
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