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The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres recently raised deep concerns over what he described as an “epidemic” of coups in Africa.

There is trepidation in high places because of the gale of coups sweeping through some countries, especially in West Africa. The only guarantee against a

Africa is blessed with the right population mix for great transformation. However, its leaders are neither prepared for current challenges.

The clamour for coups among citizens is rising Wikimedia CommonsOn the night of 13 January 1963, Togo’s President Sylvanus Olympio was shot dead by rebels in the first military coup staged in Africa. A long list, as shown below, was to come. From the 1960s to the end of the millennium, there were an average of four military coups a year on the continent. By the end of the 1990s this phenomenon seemed to have faded away. But since August 2020 six African nations have suffered seven coups or attem

Why the reasons matter.