FACT CHECK: Did Senegal's president-elect criticise France in viral video?

If you have been active on social media platforms in the last 48 hours, you may have watched a video purportedly showing Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal’s president-elect, berating France.

“It is high time for France to lift its knees off our necks and put an end to this unjust oppression. Centuries of misery, human trafficking, colonialism, and neo-colonialism have caused immeasurable suffering. It is time to put an end to this cycle of oppression,” the speaker said in the video. “It’s time for France to leave Africa alone”…Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the newly sworn-in president of Senegal. This simply shows France’s dwindling popularity in Africa,” the X user captioned the video.the video with the caption: “Africa has woken up. May God protect the new Senegalese president. Nigeria is next in 2027. No more puppet regime for anybody. It’s time to start leapfrogging into the developed world economically.

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