Trade/Commerce Posts filed under Trade/Commerce.
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The Root of It: How One Seed Captured Two Colonies for a Century
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: By the 1920s, groundnuts made up over 90% of th…
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The Innovation Nobody Ordered: Nigeria’s Farmer-Built Cocoa Industry
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Nobody in a colonial office in London decided N…
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The Candle That Lied: Palm Oil’s Journey From Symbol of Freedom to Instrument of Bondage
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: A 19th-century British advertisement for palm-o…
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Two Portraits: The Statue in Lagos and the Woman in the Records
Here’s what you need to know: In the heart of Lagos, on Broad Street, sits Tinubu Square — a statue and public space honoring one of Nigerian hi…
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The Gatekeeper’s War: How One Shipping Line Decided Who Got to Export
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: By the early twentieth century, if a bag of pal…
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Who Really Owned the Road: Trucks, Traders, and the Fight Over Rural Credit
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: An African driver saw a lorry as a path to genu…
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The Roster: Meet the Thirteen Firms That Carved Up a Nation’s Cocoa
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Thirteen European trading firms sat down in 193…
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Skin in the Game: APM Terminals’ $600M Bet on the System It Keeps Praising
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: When the company most publicly praising a gover…
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Recycling a Failed Idea: The Chartered Company Model’s Second Life in Africa
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: By the 1880s, the chartered company — a private…
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From Peddler to Kingmaker: The Long Arc of Lebanese Trading Power in West Africa
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This is the story of how Lebanese and Syrian tr…