Ballot or Bullet


On January 7, a group of young military officers in Libreville, Gabon, tried to overthrow the government of President Ali Bongo Ondimba, in order to end the Bongo family dynasty. Africa has had many coups, many of them dating back to the immediate post-independence period, to date there has been a total of 204 coups which at some point it was the most common practice in order to have a change of power. Young people have been responsible for leading some of Africa’s most memorable coups, triggered mostly by dissatisfaction with political governance. Throughout the years it has noted that coups are becoming less common of practice this could be because of coup leaders, they often become dictatorship who rule with an iron fist and are more brutal than the government before. After noting this a cycle of coups they try changing the power through their backing of democratic norms and reforms

 https://issafrica.org/iss-today/do-africas-youth-prefer-the-ballot-to-the-bullet

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