Table of Contents

Part I: Background

Introduction: “No Farewell to Arms” in Africa?

George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi Kalu

Chapter 1: Coups d’etat: Theoretical Issues

Kelechi Kalu

Part II: Case Studies

Chapter 2: Military Coup in Burkina Faso

Daniel Eizenga

Chapter 3: Governance, Democratization and Military Coups in Cote d’Ivoire

Henry Kam Kah

Chapter 4: The Military, the Developmental State and the 2013 Coup in Egypt

Zeyad el Nabolsy

Chapter 5: Post-Third Wave “Praetorianism” in Mauritania

Boubacar N’Diaye

Chapter 6: Post-1990 Military Coups in Sierra Leone

Umar Salman Kamara

Chapter 7: Military Intervention and the 2019 Coup in the Sudan

Bitrus Nuhu Mailabari

Part III: Toward the Prevention of Coups

Chapter 8: The African Union’s Anti-Coup Regime

George Klay Kieh, Jr.

Part IV: Lessons and Insights

Conclusion: Toward Caging the Coup “Genie” in Africa

George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi Kalu

About the Author

George Klay Kieh, Jr. is dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs and professor of political science at Texas Southern University, and professor in the Graduate Program in International Relations at the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU), Liberia.

Kelechi Kalu is professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews

In the transitory and dynamic world of scholarship, Democratization and Military Coups in Africa: Post-1990 Political Conflicts is a welcome re-engagement with the ever-present 'man on the horse back' in Africa's political vineyard.