Os Golpes de Estado na África Ocidental e os seus Efeitos na actualidade. O Caso particular da Costa do Marfim.

Abstract

The apparent impression of stability on the African continent, “reorganized” according to the model of Nation-States in the colonial era, was built by the main powers in that period. Under the rhetoric of bringing development to the lands to the south, the colonial regimes drew a map on the continent, which ended up dividing ethnic groups and placing “disparate, heterogeneous and culturally different ethnoreligious groups” in power. This way of acting by the colonial powers ended up creating endemic conflicts and situations of coup d'états on the African continent; and Côte d'Ivoire, within this framework, was not an isolated case. Thus, this work consists of two chapters; in the first chapter we characterize Africa from the geopolitical point of view, we approach roughly the coups d'état in West Africa, with emphasis on Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria and Sierra-Leone. We also talked about the issue of borders in Africa and the issue of refugees. In the second chapter, we talk about the conflicts in Côte d'Ivoire, the coups d'état, the peace processes, the UN interventions and the French intervention in Côte d'Ivoire.