It's more like, good governance gives you legitimacy to protect you from coups. It doesn't always work, like in the case of Niger, but it works most times.
If Tchiani keeps on flopping and loses guard, he would be couped.
Ruto would most likely be couped if the protests against him pick up steam.
Ultimately, coups happen when you lose out in the power game. Losing legitimacy is one way to do that.
Maybe Africans can benefit from knowing what Europeans used to know, but sadly forgotten: a democracy, a republic has conditions, it is not simply a good thing we should just wish for. The condition is putting the public good above personal or group good. If this is not the case, a civil war is inevitable. And in that case, some kind of a king is the least bad option. Kings simply reward loyalty with money, so everybody stops hating each other and gets loyal to the king, which means through the king they also cooperate with each other.
So try for making the conditions of a republic, which is true public-spiritedness, putting the public interest above the private or group interest. But if this does not work, find a king.
It's more like, good governance gives you legitimacy to protect you from coups. It doesn't always work, like in the case of Niger, but it works most times.
If Tchiani keeps on flopping and loses guard, he would be couped.
Ruto would most likely be couped if the protests against him pick up steam.
Ultimately, coups happen when you lose out in the power game. Losing legitimacy is one way to do that.
Maybe Africans can benefit from knowing what Europeans used to know, but sadly forgotten: a democracy, a republic has conditions, it is not simply a good thing we should just wish for. The condition is putting the public good above personal or group good. If this is not the case, a civil war is inevitable. And in that case, some kind of a king is the least bad option. Kings simply reward loyalty with money, so everybody stops hating each other and gets loyal to the king, which means through the king they also cooperate with each other.
So try for making the conditions of a republic, which is true public-spiritedness, putting the public interest above the private or group interest. But if this does not work, find a king.
context specific institutional overhaul — you nailed it!