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A sun-glasses seller walks past a billboard showing junta leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, in Conakry on September 11, 2021. – Doumbouya’s special forces on September 5, 2021 seized Alpha Conde in a Coup, the West African state’s 83-year-old president, a former champion of democracy accused of taking the path of authoritarianism. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
COLONEL MAMADY DOUMBOUYA

Democracy is still a dream in Guinea

Military juntas seldom protect human rights, but they justify their coups for this reason

  • Rorisang Moyo
5 min read
Miriam Makeba on stage at the Olympia in Paris, France on May 13, 1964 (Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Stevie, Festac and a grenade

The singer recalls her time with Stevie Wonder at Festac, as well as her escape from an explosion

  • Miriam Makeba
3 min read