Nigeria, Sept. 9 -- Zambia's peaceful and orderly election in August offered a glimmer of hope that Africa's story might be changing.
For the third time in three decades, an opposition leader defeated the sitting president sending a message to the world that the continent may not be the incumbent's lair after all.
Opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, didn't just win; the incumbent, Edgar Lungu, accepted defeat and congratulated the winner.
But hopes that Zambia's election could be a turning point have since dissipated, as soldiers in the West African country of Guinea overthrew the civilian government while the continent was still savouring its Zambia moment.
Eighty-three-year-old Guinean President, Alpha Conde, who wangled himself in...