A Year in Coups

Epigrammata XXII

Mohamed Bazoum, BBC

If Europe’s a house of cards, suppose
That Africa's but dominoes
Placed in careful lines by power
Which always fall in a latter hour
Post-colonial things like these
Fits and starts of the same disease
Mali, Niger, Congo and Gabon
The list will continue on and on
Until at last, "Africa" is gone.