Any hasty generalisations about attempted Military coups, successful military coups, and military governments in Africa and the Africa Diaspora would have to be qualified by assessing the particular countries. Lest we forget, it's quite a formidable list for even specialists.
In alphabetical order :
Benin, Bophuthatswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ciskei, Comoros
Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo
Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco
Niger. Nigeria
Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname
Togo, Transkei, Tunisia, Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda, United States
Venda, Venezuela
(Professor Google says, see also
Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
List of coups d'état and coup attempts – chronological listing
The name Murtala Muhammed has been praised far and wide.
It's remarkable that he is said to have achieved so much within the six short months during which he served as Nigeria's head of State.
In some African countries, after the Military seizes power they then decorate themselves with all kinds of fanciful slogans, as justification, and to signal their serious or fake intentions by adopting titles such as "The Supreme Revolutionary Council", "National Reformation Council", but the Nigerian military is hesitant about using terms such as "Revolution" or "Revolutionary" , so as not to give the Wild West the wrong impression ; instead, not that they are scared of Revolution, they are not scared, they are only being wise and cautious and that's why they first have to quietly reassure that West that they intend to restore the country to democracy as soon as humanly possible, and in Nigeria's case in particular , that they do not intend to follow in the footsteps of the late Murtala Muhammed or his trajectory or to be assassinated because of that kind of commitment.
When Tunde Idiagbon started making that certain kind of noises about Nigeria being entitled to a seat on the UN Security Council , see what happened to him/ them. A severe internal dissension was fomented by the internal counter-revolutionary forces . and in addition, some external pressure was mounted against them to sabotage any chance of their succeeding. Think: The Congo. Burkina Faso. More recently, Ethiopia.
Biographically speaking by 1976 when I was celebrating America's 200 years in New York, Motor Park Poet was not yet a poet, MPP was barely Bar Mitzvah age and still running around in his poetic short trousers when MM took over power through the barrel of his gun, which means that MPP is only echoing what some of the elders have been telling him through the years.
As always, he who feels it knows.
Chidi says, that "Mohammed formulated a realistic policy of return to civil rule", whilst the Wikipedia gives the impression that he " ruled over Nigeria from 30 July 1975 until his assassination on 13 February 1976. This period in Nigerian history, from the Northern counter-coup victory to Murtala's death, is commonly associated with the institutionalization of the military in politics."
I had been in Nigeria for three years prior to the Buhari-Idiagbon duo taking over on New Year's Eve 1983 ( just as JJ Rawlings did in Ghana on New Years Eve 1981 when everybody was nice and tipsy, jollifying and jollificating, 'appi New Year me noh die O!) . I thought that the Buhari-Idiagbon duo was quite revolutionary in their first six months (there's a long list of their accomplishments during that period, including the mountain-high rubbish heaps at Mile One Market in Port Harcourt being miraculously cleared within 48 hours, and salary arrears that had piled up for more than six months or more being paid to Civil Servants, contractors and teachers throughout the Federation of the then 19 States. Their WAI ( War Against Indiscipline) policy put an end to all kinds of absenteeism , such as people signing up as " Present" at the office at 8 O'clock in the morning and then taking off to go fishing and for the rest of the day the man not being " on seat" but expecting to collect his salary at the end of the month. That, and similar practices
This had all the hallmarks of the revolutionary leader in the waiting:
The Achebe Foundation Interviews #19: General Muhammadu Buhari
The main breaks to revolutionary progress, being the recalcitrant Senate/ senators forever dragging their feet ; understandably , they don't want to sign up to the kind of legislations that would render them liable to investigation and their feet thereby dragged to court to face the music…
BTW, what about Aminu Kano?
Omoyele Sowore (Revo )?
Cf. Proverbs of Hell
On Sunday, 19 December 2021 at 18:07:26 UTC+1 chidi...@gmail.com wrote:Oluwatoyin,(1)Mohammed formulated a realistic policy of return to civil rule. (2)Initiated revolutionary foreign policies that helped to rid Africa of the vestiges of colonialism and subjugation. (3) Launched credible anticorruption campaign and systemic cleansing that started with himself. (4) Launched a well packaged civic reorientation programme. Etc.-CAO.How was Murtala revolutionary?ToyinOn Sun, Dec 19, 2021, 14:06 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:Mazi Cornelius,(1) Awolowo(as Parliamentary Opposition Leader)(2)Murtala Mohammed (despite his genocide credential)In the history of 🇳🇬 so far, who would a classify as " a revolutionary leader" / " revolutionary leaders" ?On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, 13:05 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:Revolutionary leaders who have engineered epochal changes have always been those who had the will powers to resist pressures always exerted by the system to maintain the status quo. President Buhari and most other past Nigerian leaders may be good at personal level but lacked the aforementioned will power.-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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