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100 1 0 _aBanégas, Richard
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245 0 0 _aPutsch and street politics in Burkina Faso
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520 _aIn September 2015, the transition in Burkina Faso that had started after the fall of Blaise Compaoré eleven months earlier was brutally interrupted by a putsch led by soldiers of the Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP), the armed wing of the old regime. The whole country was hit by a wave of civic mobilization demanding their ousting, as well as respect for the “sovereignty of the people,” expressed on the street. Within less than a week, external and internal pressures—especially from the loyalist army—brought down what demonstrators called the “world’s most stupid coup.” A few months earlier, on the campus of the University of Ouagadougou, students organized an open-air debate about the very same RSP that threatened the democratic process. What follows is the verbatim reproduction of part of these debates. These instances of public speaking are not just premonitory. They also express a form of civic vigilantism that is being voiced together with a subaltern hermeneutics of History.
786 0 _nPolitique africaine | o 139 | 3 | 2015-12-17 | p. 147-170 | 0244-7827
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-politique-africaine-2015-3-page-147?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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