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The Challenge of Democracy in Africa: Examining the Rise of Military Coups in the Sahel

How do we look at Africa’s relationship to democracy at a time when military coups follow one another, particularly in the Sahel, with Niger as the last illustration after Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso? The question is all the more worth asking since the continent seems to be reconnecting with practices that were thought to be outdated and relegated to the memories of African political history in the 1960s and 1970s.

While the national conferences of the 1990s had blown a strong wind of democratic hope, reality has shown how, gradually, the id…

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2023-07-31 06:42:00
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