Sources on Coups in Africa | Anglophone vs. Francophone Africa

Scott

http://www.systemicpeace.org/africa/ACPPAnnex2b.pdf

(a table which shows all successful, attempted, plotted, and alleged coups in Africa from 1946 to 2004)

(describes the international response to Africa’s first coup in Togo)

(general info about coups. I specifically used the table which shows current heads of state who acquired power through a coup)

Meghan

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/pdfs/Coup-traps.pdf

An Oxford University paper entitled Why does Africa have so many Coups d’Etat?

Table of coups/coup attempts/coup plots and # of deaths in African states, 1964-2004

Sara

http://www.systemicpeace.org/africa/ACPPAnnex2b.pdf

Table and list of success of coups until 2004

Paper on post electoral crisis in Cote d’Ivoire

Ally

http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/160389.pdf?&acceptTC=true&jpdConfirm=true (is from 1984 unfortunatley, but is still interesting bc it goes into franco/anglo differences)

Madeleine Raber

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/pdfs/Coup-traps.pdf

Dani

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3176237

While this article isn’t specifically on Coups, its similar focus on civil war is useful when looking at security in africa

This more specifically delves into the Coup and conflict in Mali in 2012

Natalia

Celia

African Development Bank,”Political Fragility in Africa: Are Military Coups d’Etat a Never-Ending Phenomenon?”

Professor Horning

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/pdfs/Coup-traps.pdf