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Rebellion, Revolution, and Tradition: Reinterpreting Coups in Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Maxwell Owusu
Maxwell Owusu
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The University of Michigan
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Since the military coup that toppled the government of Sylvanus Olympio in Togo, West Africa, no less than seventy African leaders throughout sub-Saharan Africa have been overthrown by the armed forces. In the first two decades of independence alone, there were forty successful coups, not to mention the countless coup attempts (Meredith, 1984; Kitchen, 1985)

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The Traditions of Populist Politics
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 372 - 397
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1989

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