There is perhaps no better person to explain the popularity of coups - now seemingly stretching down to Central Africa from the Sahel - than General Mamadi Doumbouya, the 43-year-old who has been the interim president of Guinea since 1 October 2021.
So, I guess a question that needs to be asked is why democratic systems aren't working as intended in these countries. If there is such hatred of the current government that a coup is wildly popular, why aren't state institutions able to force a change of power democraticly?
And are the coups just setting up another government to overthrow a few decades from now?
So, I guess a question that needs to be asked is why democratic systems aren't working as intended in these countries. If there is such hatred of the current government that a coup is wildly popular, why aren't state institutions able to force a change of power democraticly?
And are the coups just setting up another government to overthrow a few decades from now?
Because they aren't democratic institutions. They are French neocolonial institutions and systems.
How are they not democratic institutions?