Some scholars and experts have always argued that rising social and economic stresses have eroded public confidence in institutions of democratic governance around the world and perhaps even worse in Africa, hence we are witnessing several military seizures of power. But what’s really behind the recent spate of coups in Africa and what’s the role of external actors in fueling these coups and how can our leaders reverse this trend? For more on this, we are joined by….

GUEST: Dr Olayinka Ajala, Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations @ Leeds Beckett University in the UK

GUEST: Emeritus Professor Kwesi Prah – Founder and former Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society: His Phd thesis published in 1973 Titled

Some scholars and experts have always argued that rising social and economic stresses have eroded public confidence in institutions of democratic governance around the world and perhaps even worse in Africa, hence we are witnessing several military seizures of power. But what’s really behind the recent spate of coups in Africa and what’s the role of external actors in fueling these coups and how can our leaders reverse this trend? For more on this, we are joined by….
GUEST: Dr Olayinka Ajala, Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations @ Leeds Beckett University in the UK
GUEST: Emeritus Professor Kwesi Prah – Founder and former Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society: His Phd thesis published in 1973 Titled

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