When a democracy becomes so corrupted into becoming illiberal, citizens often become so concomitantly frustrated with the system that they long for ‘liberation’ from it. This is where opportunists like Traoré and other military coupists come in, and those who never lived through a military regime would wrongly interpret their stern mien as evidence that […]

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