Military Intervention in African Politics after Independence.
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2020
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Department of History, Kaduna State University.
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The aim of this work is to look into the issues of military intervention in African Politics after independence. This area of study has been overlooked by scholars, while looking into other areas of governance in Africa. Thus, the history of Egyptian military imbroglio marked the beginning of the overthrow of monarchy in 1952 in Africa. This development was followed through the wrestles and seizure of political power championed by the Sudanese Armed Forces in 1958. The Sudanese episode marked the beginning and popularity of coups in Africa. This was at least the popular and change of regime within the African context. The arrival of events that led to military intervention in the sub-Saharan African was further popularized thorough the Congolese “Force Publique” mutiny of 1962. Consequently, the takeover of the Togolese Armed Forces of President Olympio’s regime in 1962 brought about the period of military rule around the West African Sub-region. In the preponderance states of Africa, the colonial masters seemed to have handed over the baton of power to democratically elected civilian administrations. But just within the period of ten years majority of African States had experienced one type of military rules or the other. Thus, this paper intends to examine the intervention of the military in African politics after independence.
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Eliasu, Y. (2020): Military Intervention in African Politics after Independence. Kaduna Journal of Historical Studies (KJHS) 11(2), 148-159, Published by: Department of History, Kaduna State University.