Why Africans Celebrate Coups.

[Zlantann]

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Africa has experienced 14 coups from 2017 till date. Recently, Chad, Mali, Guinea and Sudan have experienced military takeovers. Apart from the coup in Sudan, we have seen citizens publicly celebrate the forceful removal of democratically elected government in Africa. The truth is Africans don’t like authoritarian rule and most of them prefer democracy.
Why the celebration after coups?

1)   Most democratically elected African leaders use undemocratic approaches. In fact in terms of respect for human right, there is no different between military rule and democratic government in some African countries.

2)   Africans don’t have confidence in the electoral systems of their country. Majority of Africans believe that their votes wouldn’t count during elections. Most elections in Africa are rigged. Hence, citizens believe that coups would open the door for a more efficient form of civilian government.

3)    Luxury and Suffering: Africa governments are well known for extravagant spending on friends and families while ordinary citizens live in poverty. Citizens are forced to accept military intervention due to extreme poverty in the mist of plenty.
  
4)   Africans believe that it would be more tolerable to endure suffering from the military than to suffer under a government they voted for.

[Coyster]

Most of the countries in Africa still languish in extreme poverty, whilst the 'privileged' few in power amass wealth that would last them two lifetimes, it is what it is, and it is no longer news that countries in Africa remain some of the most corrupt in the world. But i am afraid military coups can do nothing to salvage the situation, especially in the long run, the reason being that even after any successful coup, the military only assumes power for a short time, there is usually a transition back into democratic/civilian rule with the hope that the new government will work honestly, but in the long run they become like their predecessors and the cycle sadly continues.

[Agbe]

Africans celebrate coup because they believe that the so called democratic elected leaders have fall them.

The ideologies of Africans leaders are always conservative not progressive..even the so called "All Progressive Congress" political party in Nigeria is not progressing instead it decaying the whole system

[Mometaskers]

I think it's really mostly #1. Some of leaders that started as "democratically elected" in the beginning - or revolutionaries that promise democracy, only to become authoritarians themselves. I could say the best example is Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

This then leads to #2 when the rigging gets ridiculous with an unrealistically high turnout. Heck, might as well win the lottery while at it. (This is Mugabe again)

We can only hope all these countries would turn out like Botswana. Nothing spectacular but stable and heading in the right direction.

[TheCoinGrabber]

Considering where many African countries went to after decolonization, it isn't really surprising. Their post-colonial leaders were no better than the colonial powers in most cases. The military staging a coup is just a change in management in the eyes of the commonfolk.

[mikeywith]

corruption is not too common in the military government .

2022 is not over yet, but I am sure as hell that this is the funniest statement I will ever read this year.

[Sayeds56]

I think africa citizens prefer the military government,  the military government is the best to them because of how things are handle, corruption is not too common in the military government .the military government is a type of government that do not tolerate nonsense and no one is above the low.

I think Military governments may be good  for short term because they forcefully improve Law and order situation and stabilize economy temporarily but for long term it is  never good because basic human rights are denied in Military rule. The history has proved it again and again that countries make more progress during the Democratic rule when decision are made with consensus in the Parliament .South Korea ,India Bangladesh and Philippines are good examples of democracies rule.

[paxmao]

I think that some Africans celebrate coups, and, more precisely, the ones that actually have a stake on the coup and consider that they somehow are going to be benefited from it. Another possible reason is that, after the coup, the government becomes basically worse than the previous one so there is always a good reason to celebrate that they are gone once for all.

Now seriously, Democracy is not possible without education, is as simple as that. Uneducated people rush to populist leaders because that is something easy to understand.

[Markinzo]

In a society in which political office holders sees political office as a buccaneering expedition for personal enrichment and self_aggrandizement at the expense of the masses then in my own perspective, a coup that overthrown such government is worth celebrating. At least it then create room for new changes and policies to emerge that in most cases might ameliorate the suffering of the masses. Sometimes certain situations necessitate a coup.

[suzanne5223]

I believe the reason why African celebrate coups is simply, they never enjoy the needed benefit the government ought to provide for them, and the last time I checked there's no true democracy in Africa because they are still governed modern slavery way.
Nobody likes authoritarian rule but most African political leaders are a liar and this is the reason why Africans don't believe in their electoral systems.