Democratization and Military Coups in Africa

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

• Part I: BackgroundIntroduction: “No Farewell to Arms” in Africa?George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi KaluChapter 1: Coups d’etat: Theoretical IssuesKelechi KaluPart II: Case Studies Chapter 2: Military Coup in Burkina FasoDaniel EizengaChapter 3: Governance, Democratization and Military Coups in Cote d’IvoireHenry Kam KahChapter 4: The Military, the Developmental State and the 2013 Coup in EgyptZeyad el NabolsyChapter 5: Post-Third Wave “Praetorianism” in MauritaniaBoubacar N’DiayeChapter 6: Post-1990 Military Coups in Sierra LeoneUmar Salman KamaraChapter 7: Military Intervention and the 2019 Coup in the SudanBitrus Nuhu MailabariPart III: Toward the Prevention of CoupsChapter 8: The African Union’s Anti-Coup RegimeGeorge Klay Kieh, Jr.Part IV: Lessons and InsightsConclusion: Toward Caging the Coup “Genie” in AfricaGeorge Klay Kieh, Jr. and Kelechi Kalu

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.