Lawfare Daily: Political Change in Madagascar and Kenya
Discussing the recent coup in Madagascar.
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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, a former senior CIA Africa analyst, to discuss the recent coup in Madagascar and the death of Kenyan opposition leader and political giant, Raila Odinga.
They discuss the reasons for the coup and how Madagascar's neighbors might respond. Berkley Fletcher also explained Odinga's legacy and how his death might change Kenya.
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Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Essay editor, and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Holly Berkley Fletcher is a former Senior Africa Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she covered multiple African countries for 19 years. She was raised in Kenya by evangelical missionaries. She is also an American historian and author of the Substack A Zebra Without Stripes and the forthcoming book The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism.
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
