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🗓️ 20 October 2023
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Strong-man governments are on the rise and authoritarian regimes are growing in popularity by the day. Nowhere is proof of this massive global shift more clear than in Africa where a record number of coups have taken place in once-hopeful democracies. But before you judge war-torn Africa as a lost cause, consider the fact that we live in a world that rewards the strongest. In fact, you might even be guilty of it in your own house, just like me…
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0:00.0 | The 1960s, which was a peak of revolutionary turnover in Africa, there was a movement that went pro-democracy. |
0:06.8 | Since then, African countries, the people themselves, have seen some growth and some development, |
0:11.3 | but they've also discovered that democracy is slow. |
0:14.4 | And it's vulnerable. |
0:15.3 | When you treat everybody as an equal, then you assume that everybody has equal invested in the outcome of the state, which is not true. |
0:22.3 | Through this period of increased investment in the democratic system, it didn't work. |
0:35.0 | What do you think is one of the most important things happening in the world right now? |
0:39.5 | I think that I've been keeping my eye on the coups in Africa lately. |
0:45.2 | I think that it's an interesting shift that's happening that's been happening in the last decade or so. |
0:52.6 | It's funny because most people don't realize that, like, |
0:56.6 | Africa is a very tumultuous place. |
0:59.9 | There's always change happening, |
1:02.1 | but that the change that has happened there recently |
1:04.5 | is kind of unique because, while coos in Africa are kind of a running joke, |
1:09.1 | the frequency of coups is not funny. |
1:13.5 | Right. |
1:13.9 | And it's, |
1:15.1 | it's, |
1:15.9 | what's being highlighted lately is that |
1:17.9 | what we're seeing now, |
1:19.6 | we haven't seen since the 60s. |
1:21.6 | So it seemed like Africa was on a trend, |
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