‘Africa was never hers,’: West Africans roast France on TikTok after coup in Niger, declare colonization ‘over’

A week after Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown by a military junta led by the captain of his presidential guard, Abdourahamane Tiani, French-speaking West African TikTokers are declaring that “colonization is over” using a viral sound. One TikTok, posted by the user @aicha_m4, shows an image of Tiani over a caption announcing all French …