gabon and coup mania

Invariably, the Americas and Africa feature as the prominent zones of coups. . ... The story of stuttered, mutated revolutions in Africa and Latin America is very much one of externally directed coups as much as failed local experiments. . ..

day one

When the Zulus were the most terrifying tribe in South Africa, their army used a tactic known as “the horns of the buffalo” to overwhelm all opposition. ..

south africa is a glimpse of post-trump america

anxiety, the sense that elite no longer spoke to many Americans — South Africa, the problems that gave rise to Zuma were considered even more critical to resolve. ... By the kind of unwritten societal rules the populace was going to the barricades to defend, reminder of the former mindset lay..

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