Niger Uprising One Year On: Coup or Pan-African Shift?

Before the 2023 popular anticolonial uprising that removed Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum from power, “extreme poverty had reached 42% of the Nigerian population” explains Alex Anfruns Millán, over a year later, Niger is now regarded among the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Millán, a journalist and author of Niger: Another Coup D’État… or the Pan-African Revolution? joins the show to discuss the progress made by Niger and the other countries in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in confronting neocolonialism head-on that “allows millions of people across the African continent to expect a better future for their children”

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