Unsteady Statehood In West Africa
by
Pierre Englebert
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Poor even by the standards of West Africa and landlocked at the edge of the Sahel, Burkina Faso—the “Land of Men of Dignity”—has been plagued by political instability since independence from France in 1960. The country has suffered five military coups, the last of which cost the life of the...