Nigeria, May 13 -- These days, it seems all right to play with fire. The blaze started like a solitary spark in Mali in August when the streets, the elite and jihadists banded to remove President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
The former president had discarded election results and written a version that tightened his grip on power. How he thought he could reinvent the Mansa Musa legend in a country riven by violence and poverty, only he can tell. Outside the capital, Bamako, however, it was clear that Keita's ambition was dead on arrival, awaiting funeral. And, of course, he didn't last to tell the story.
Till this day, efforts by the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to remove the military regime that sacked Keita, o...