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The Circumstantial Case: What the Evidence on Niger’s Coups Actually Shows
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This isn’t a story with a smoking-gun doc…
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Full Circle: The Coup That Finally Broke the Pattern
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: In July 1967, Hamani Diori signed a protocol ha…
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The Bomb That Needed an Empire
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Most accounts of France’s nuclear arsenal…
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The Fine Print: What Niger Actually Signed in 1967 and 1968
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Everyone who covers this story mentions the 45-…
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Two Orano Timelines Converge: The Vote and the Permit
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: One story is about a French state agency quietl…
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1994: How a Currency Decision Made in Paris Erased Optorg From West Africa Overnight
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: The Decision: What Actually Happened in Dakar I…
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How Optorg, CFAO, and SCOA Divided West Africa’s Wholesale Trade Among Themselves
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: The Shared Playbook: Why These Three Companies …
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The Ch. Peyrissac Acquisition and Optorg’s Late, Opportunistic Arrival in West Africa
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: The Acquisition: What Optorg Actually Bought in…
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Caterpillar & Control: What “Exclusive Representative” Actually Meant for a Continent Trying to Build Itself
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: The Origin: A Colonial-Era Exclusivity Deal It&…
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The 1947 Central African Entry: How One Acquisition Handed a French Textile Consortium Control Over the Region’s Heavy Machinery
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here is what you need to know: A Monopoly Bought Fully Formed Picture the entire ea…