Comoros, on repeat
"The islands that kept getting couped."
A re-release of the episode you keep asking us about. Mercenaries, missing presidents and a country that never quite catches a break.
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Togo · Mon 16 June
Togo and the very first coup
How independence turned on a single Sunday morning.
Ghana · Mon 23 June
Ghana, Nkrumah and the Accra Riots
Ex-servicemen, boycotts and a very British ambush.
Botswana · Mon 30 June
Botswana and a very forbidden romance
A king, an English typist, and an empire losing its mind.
DRC · Mon 7 July
DRC, Lumumba and the CIA
One speech, one plane, one very ugly plot.