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Kaboré's Defeat
This article by Rahmane Idrissa appeared in Sidecar, the blog of New Left Review. In the article Idrissa makes a comparison between the recent coups in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso. Idrissa explains that the defeated regimes are on shaky ground, causing populations to lose their patience and turns against the leaders in Mali and Burkina Faso, as well as against the French presence in the Sahel region. Next, these populations now wish for a secret military takeover, pointing at the recent removal of president Roch Kaboré in Burkina Faso.
This article appeared on Sidecar on 31 January 2022. Also read Rahmane Idrissa's article ‘Mapping the Sahel’, in New Left Review 132.
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31 January 2022
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Abdourahmane Idrissa is a political scientist and currently works on the politics of Islam and secularism in Africa, and a modern history of Niger.
Posted on 7 February 2022, last modified on 11 February 2022