Ep. 134: A conversation with Emmanuel Balogun about how to fight coups

How can ECOWAS and the African Union combat ongoing coups in Mali and Burkina Faso? We spoke with international relations scholar Emmanuel Balogun about the tools that ECOWAS and the AU have at their disposal to fight coups and about the obstacles the intergovernmental agencies will face in trying to use them.

Books, Links, & Articles

• Emmanuel Balogun
• Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
• Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W French 
• Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani  

Previous Episodes We Mentioned

• Ep. 108: A conversation with Adom Getachew on postcolonialism, worldmaking, and more 
• Ep. 133: A conversation with Naunihal Singh about coups

Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.