Coups
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In the last century,
coups
d’état were often the means by which (mostly military) rulers remained in power for many years, outlawing and persecuting the opposition.
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According to non-governmental organizations that keep such statistics, since 1945, in Europe and the Americas, there has been a steep decline in interstate wars, in deadly ethnic riots or pogroms, and in military coups, even in South America.
There were no
coups.
You see, all these countries I lived in, the
coups
d'état and the corruption I'd seen in Ghana and Gambia and in Zimbabwe, contrasted with the wonderful examples I had seen in Botswana and in South Africa of good leadership.
When you hear Babangida, you remember the military and military
coups.
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