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What is causing the new wave of military coups in Africa?
Photo: Aboubacarkhoraa, via Wikimedia Commons Africa is facing the third wave of military coups, posing serious threats to the institutionalisation of politics and power.
What characterises these coups and what is causing their resurgence? How best should critical stakeholders respond to the challenge and restore sustainable democratisation?
Welcome to a guest lecture with Dr. J. Shola Omotola.
Inge Amundsen (CMI) will be moderator.
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J. Shola Omotola is a professor of political science at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria and the 2023 Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the Nordic Africa Institute and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. He specialises and has published on comparative African institutions and democratisation.
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Inge Amundsen is a political scientist focusing on democratic institutionalisation, political economy, parliaments, political parties, political corruption, and natural resources revenue management.
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J. Shola Omotola is a professor of political science at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria and the 2023 Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the Nordic Africa Institute and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. He specialises and has published on comparative African institutions and democratisation.
Inge Amundsen is a political scientist focusing on democratic institutionalisation, political economy, parliaments, political parties, political corruption, and natural resources revenue management.
His main study areas are Angola, Malawi, Palestine, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Ghana. Amundsen made his PhD in comparative African studies at the University of Tromsø in 1997. He was Research Director at CMI from 2000-2003, Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre from 2002-2006, and he has coordinated three CMI institutional cooperation programmes.
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