Ghana’s President and Chair of ECOWAS, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, expressed concerns at the extraordinary session of the regional bloc in Accra about the spate of coups in the West African sub-region recently. The fear is that as more and more governments fall, a parallel and rival group may emerge from the ashes of these coup d’etats posing security challenges for the region for decades to come. [Follow @Graphicgh] One cannot help but wonder whether this latter-day coup culture is West Africa’s own version of the Arab Spring. Concerns are being raised about why a chunk of these coups have...