William Miles –Niger’s Coup in Context: A Four-Decade Retrospective from the World’s Poorest Country

William Miles first came to Niger as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the 1970s. He was last there during the July 2023 coup d’état. Locked down and eventually evacuated by the French Air Force, he will share his reflections on the coup and its implications in light of his forty years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Niger-Nigeria borderlands and research into governance and counterterrorism in West Africa.