Many African countries appeared mired in an endemic “coup trap” ( Londregan and Poole, 1990), with poverty causing coups (and dictatorship) and vice versa. Cold War Africa was home to many fledgling and politically unstable countries that were (1) extremely poor and suffering from low economic growth ( Collier and Hoeffler, 2005), (2) rife with ethnic tensions and violence ( Roessler, 2011 Harkness, 2016, 2018), and (3) governed by autocratic and corrupt personalist regimes ( Jackson and Rosberg, 1982, 1984 Decalo, 1989). 3 The average African state has suffered four coup attempts since independence, with Sudan having the most (17), including two just last year.Īt their historic peak in the 1960s, nearly thirty percent of all African states had suffered one or more coup attempts in the prior two years. 2 As of 2022, 45 of the region's 54 countries have suffered one or more coup attempts. According to the Colpus dataset, a new dataset of coup types and characteristics, 1 the region has suffered a total of 222 coup attempts since 1946, more than any other world region. For six decades, Africa has been one of the most coup-prone regions in the world.
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