Love Democracy and Support the Coup d'Etat the Paradoxes of a Youth in Search of Good Governance and Security

Maxime Kaboré

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Love Democracy and Support the Coup d'Etat the Paradoxes of a Youth in Search of Good Governance and Security

Maxime Kaboré

Published in Social Sciences (Volume 12, Issue 4)

Received: 14 June 2023 Accepted: 3 August 2023 Published: 15 August 2023

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This article analyzes the logic of youth support for the military coup d'état that occurred on September 30, 2022, in Burkina Faso. Constituting most of the population and considered as the spearhead of society, youth spontaneously mobilized to support the military who were trying to overthrow the military junta that had been in place for eight (8) months. The mobilization was aimed at preventing a possible counter-offensive by the junta, which had lost the nerve centers of power on the morning of October 1. This is since the youth, disappointed with the eight months of governance of the junta, had already begun to look for another way to return security to the country. They had placed in these soldiers the hope of reversing an increasingly degrading security situation, but also of restoring the principles of good governance, the foundations of which had been undermined by the governance of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration (MPSR) of Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba. The article shows that it is the disappointment of governance and the deterioration of the security situation that are the basis of the dynamics of mobilization of youth in favor of the coup. By mobilizing, young people have founded the hope that the authors of the coup d'état, who are young people of their generation, will manage to improve the security situation and allow the country to start again based on democratic governance.

Published in	Social Sciences (Volume 12, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ss.20231204.17
Page(s)	190-196
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Youth, Civil Society, Coup d'Etat, Democracy, Good Governance

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Maxime Kaboré. (2023). Love Democracy and Support the Coup d'Etat the Paradoxes of a Youth in Search of Good Governance and Security. Social Sciences, 12(4), 190-196. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ss.20231204.17

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Maxime Kaboré. Love Democracy and Support the Coup d'Etat the Paradoxes of a Youth in Search of Good Governance and Security. Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(4), 190-196. doi: 10.11648/j.ss.20231204.17

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Maxime Kaboré. Love Democracy and Support the Coup d'Etat the Paradoxes of a Youth in Search of Good Governance and Security. Soc Sci. 2023;12(4):190-196. doi: 10.11648/j.ss.20231204.17

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Maxime Kaboré

Department of Sociology, New Dawn University, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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Maxime Kaboré. Love Democracy and Support the Coup d'Etat the Paradoxes of a Youth in Search of Good Governance and Security. Soc Sci. 2023;12(4):190-196. doi: 10.11648/j.ss.20231204.17

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