This is not a rejoinder to Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s January 18th, 2024 opinion titled “The First Coup”. His opinion only serves this piece as the peg for a caution against overlooking the constitutive outside in the explanation of the phenomenon of coups in Africa, historically. Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s piece on January 18th is striking in its restatement of the apprehension of both the cycle of coups and the wish for the syndrome to go away.
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