 More than 1,000 people have been gathered in Burkina Faso's capital Wagadugu in support of a coup that a day earlier, Oisset President Rochka Bore dissolved government, suspended the constitution and closed borders. The latest in a long history of coups in West Africa comes amid an increasingly bloody Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and displaced millions across the Sahel region. On Monday, soldiers announced they had overthrown Kabori, a move condemned internationally but welcomed by some at home, tired of widespread insecurity, alleged corruption, and deep poverty. The crowd gathered in Wagadugu's National Square to play live music, blow horns, and dance. One carried a sign in French saying, quote, no to France. End of quote, a sign of growing frustration about the military role the former colonial power still plays in the region. What joining us live right now is an international affairs expert, Mr. Paul Ejime. Good evening, Mr. Ejime. Thank you very much, Maureen. All right. So why the celebration over the coup in Wagadugu? What does it say to you? Well, it's the usual reaction that comes with the change of government where people think they are fed up with a particular government, and then they welcome anything that comes as an alternative. But that is neither here nor there because this welcome will soon, the economy will soon be over, and then you begin the world reality now set in. People are facing the insecurity, some cannot go to the farm, poverty, and a lot of faith. Will this military provide the panacea, is that the solution? Not exactly, because we've seen it before, in French we say, there is a who. They've gone through it, and so it is now for both the day at home internally and the international community to come together and help Bokinabes to help themselves. Equals should step up UN and AU who have not really done much in terms of, remember this is the third country now that is going under military ruling in a state of within 24 months or less. Mali, that is Guinea, now Bokinabes, and then you ask which country next? The problem is bad governance corruption, and then the fact that the people are not government is not providing those benefits of governance, which is protection of life and prosperity and property, and then guaranteeing of human rights, and you know the rule of people. Why is this prevalent on the continent, why do we find black countries having these problems repeatedly? Well, it's one it has to do, I don't want us to go to the historical aspect, it has to do both with national and then external forces that are at play, and the fact that African, even though African countries are almost 60 years of independence, they are still struggling to get governance, what it means to provide for the people, that governance is about thinking about the collective, it's not about individuals, it's not about selfish, what the leaders, because the leaders are supposed to serve, but what we find is that even after independence, the new generation of African that are taking over have replaced the colonialists, and are doing worse things, you know, they are not taking care of their own people, the Africans rally against colonialism and imperialism, but their own people have become worse, because they are now trying to, they are oppressing their people, they are actually leading to poverty has increased, unemployment, and then exclusion, and deprivation, all these are escalated or increased, and you wonder, when you were supposed to be self-determination, what does it mean for Africa? Africa? So, I think it's about critical thinking. Yeah, Africans are known to be very intelligent people, I mean, you have stories of Nigerians who go out there and they excel, they excel, yet it would appear that the African continent seems to have, well, not quite the best of their people ruling them. Do you agree with that? Yes, because that is where you have now to interrogate the recruitment process, who are the people that have been deported for, to rule, and what is the process like? Because if you don't have a credible election, or elections with integrity, you are going to produce people that are not capable, and those, you can't give what you don't have. That is the point. So, Africans will now look at who are the people, you don't vote people in because they don't have money, without ideas, and then there is no vision. And so, they can't work, they have no leadership quality. That is not so, if you get there, you will soon find that it is all foam and no fear, like they say. So, antibiotics. And so, you begin to deal with incompetence, and then mediocrity. All right. The problem is, because of time, yeah, finally, because of time, this coup in Ouagadougou has received international condemnation, but we haven't heard something from France yet. No. I think France will continue to play its dubious role, I must say, because part of the problem that you have in these coups, particularly in the Francophone countries, France has a lot to do with it. At times, it has a military base or military soldiers base in this country. It is controlling the economy of these countries. They all subscribe to the CFA France, which is controlled by the French Treasury. So, it is a case of giving somebody a coat or a sheet, but you are holding onto the rope. The French speaking, the Francophone countries are struggling with their economic independence. It is not enough to give them to take the flags, what I call flagged independence, without economic independence. I think that is part of the problem. And then the character and the quality of leaders that I imagine from all these countries. They were both in Francophone, Anglophone, and all the folks. Mr. Poletiman. Mr. Poletiman, thank you so much for your time on this. Thank you for having me.