Professor Tatah Mentan, St. John’s University, Minnesota, USA

“This solid and thoroughly researched book, provides the spur for a clutch of books on constitutional disruptions, with a distinctly African focus, filling a void that has lasted since the 1960s.This landmark text is a MUST READ for those who want to understand the historical trajectory of the aberrant and abhorrent rise of “politicians in uniform” on the African political scene.”