Coup general and citizens agree: African putsches are not just military power grabs | News24

Because they aren't democratic institutions. They are French neocolonial institutions and systems.

America and more broadly western money doesn't really tolerate the locals to participate in the democracy in countries that might come to the wrong conclusions democratically. In those situations, we install a management layer into their government that is easily mistaken for vassal state puppetry by the people who actually see it in action.

From the perspective of the locals, this 'democracy' was installed by an externally funded military coup and is a tool of foreign hegemony. Democracy is what we wrote on the package, but it's not what they got when they opened it up.

Edit: I'm sure it's just a coincidence that all these coup leaders were trained by American military.