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Sep 2023
16m 45s

What Gabon’s coup means for its people –...

Al Jazeera
About this episode

A coup in Gabon: what does it mean for the Central African country, the region, and its former colonizer, France?

In this episode: 

  • Leonard Mbulle-Nziege (@LennyMbulle), Cameroon-born, US-raised and South Africa-based academic, writer, political economist and Afro-optimist
  • Nabila Ramdani (@NabilaRamdani), French-Algerian journalist and author of Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters, David Enders and our host Malika Bilal. 

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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