Mali and the Slow Decline of Military Dictatorships

What the decline of military leaders in Africa portends is that African peoples are gradually coming to terms with the fact that the state must be accountable to them and should not be the exclusive preserve of a privileged few. On 18 August 2020, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the president of Mali, was ousted by the Malian military under the auspices of Colonel Assimi Goita. This coup, one of many in the political history of the troubled West African state, was cheered on by ordinary Malians who,

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