Putches' Resurgence. How Coloniality and Greed Cloned and Maintained Them (en Inglés) - Nkwazi N. Mhango

This volume delves into coups d'état in Africa by exploring coloniality, historicity, reproducibility, and preventability. It bitingly ties coups to colonialism and coloniality that postcolonial Africa maintained, replicated, and kept in place at its perils. Markedly, the book foretells the chronicity, existentiality, and perversity of coups d'état if some measures to address and arrest them are not seriously and timely taken. Moreover, the book touches on how dictatorship creates its own fragility, susceptibility, and possibility for coups d'état. A main argument is that coloniality, corruption, dictatorship, and greed are among the anchors

and root causes of the prolongation of coups d'état in Africa where it is easy for les majeurs incapables, especially, politicians, soldiers, and warlords to grab power and abused it thereof. The book takes o with the history of coups and winds up with solutions to the problem warning Africa that is still a long way away from true democracy and peaceful transition sine coups d'état if it does not embark on, inter alia, accountability, democratic changes, good governance, and pragmatic fight against corruption, dictatorship, injustices, and poverty.