allAfrica.com
2 January 2009
Guinea’s political elite has once more been rendered powerless by an army whose leaders owe their survival to a political system built upon confusion and fear.
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Sadly, a wimpy descriptive piece devoid of analytic rigor.
The Revolutionary West-African Anti-Soupist Revolutionary Movement.
Twenty-four years after the coup that brought Lansana Conté to power..not sure if the writer meant Camarra instead of Conte. I guess it's Camarra.
On the whole it's a good article though I had expected to know why Guineans couldn't say no to another coup. Would be delighted to know whay Guineans did not make use of this opportunity to inject some democratic sanity into their political system.
Your "whys" confirm OUR analysis: the author's piece is purely descriptive. And descriptive it had to be, because his piece lacks a theoretical foundation.
Absent a theoretical foundation, only a chronicle can rock.
We don't need chronicles; we need literary pieces with explicit hypotheses that can be falsified.
THE WEST AFRICAN ANTI-SOUPIST REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT.
could the author give us some clarification about potential involvements of mining companies in this process?