The Arab Spring has demonstrated that an unprepared uprising leads to a new mess, a historic chance missed to better the life of the people and the standing of the nation in history.
The military coups in Niger, Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso seem to repeat this historic moment in a different form.
West Africa as a Sub-Saharan region seems to be far from other African nations e.g. South Africa or Malawi, Zimbabwe, or Zambia yet not only African blood binds them together by sad history and contemporary leadership failure rather than the easy access to the multiple social media information.
Unlike countries with good leadership like Rwanda, Namibia, and Botswana the population of tormented African nations observe very carefully the current state of affairs in West Africa. They monitor the steps taken, the ideas to solve issues, and the progress possibly made.
African leaders constantly meet and exchange in-depth information about their nations looking for advice from their colleagues with the need to find exile in due course (remember Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his exile!). African military leaders have a network of military service personnel across the African continent constantly in touch with each other.
What seems so far on the surface of matters by nature is close to the hearts and souls in all of Africans. Citizens of troubled nations compare the stories in West Africa unfolding and consider the events of the Arab Spring with the outcome. The speed to which this has an impact and subsequently consequences the narrative of other African countries beyond West Africa time will tell.
African leaders know the status of affairs in their nations and their proven success as much as the level of the created happiness lets them stay in power for a substantial amount of time or failed promises see their end insight coming faster. Leaders like Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Chad, Congo, Kenya, Angola, etc. measure daily their blood pressure by waking up to the latest unfolding news and intelligence reports.
The world is not an isolated event but rather like a spider net all strings interconnected. When you step on the wrong string the spider sitting far will feel it and come for you that is already trapped and destined to be eaten for good. Wise leaders are few in this world but spiders are many
