Speaker: Christian Bouquet, Professor of Political Geography at Bordeaux Montaigne University, Associate Researcher at the LAM Laboratory (Les Afriques dans le Monde) at Sciences Po Bordeaux

Since 2020, the African continent has been the scene of 9 coups d'état, which have brought military juntas to power in place of presidents considered democratically elected. These "breakdowns of the constitutional order" reflect both popular discontent and a crisis of democracy that needs to be addressed.