Since 2020, there have been nine coups in Africa. Has democracy failed the continent?
In January 2022, following a coup in Burkina Faso, concerns were raised about coups"returning" to the African continent and that democracy was dying. On 26 July 2023, Niger's democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, was overthrown in a military coup.
There has, in fact, been little space for genuine democratic practices and legitimate alternations of power in Africa, with leaders rigging and jigging the constitutional, political, and party systems to suit themselves - the most egregious being amending constitutions to legitimatise their otherwise irregular, but extended stays in power.
Couple with this is a lack of coherent policies from governments to set their countries on a sustainable path to development and eradicate poverty.
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