Trade/Commerce Posts filed under Trade/Commerce.
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The Vanishing Act: How Colonialism Erased a Government It Never Understood
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Onitsha didn’t have one monarch. It had t…
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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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Round by Round: The Century-Long Fight Between CFAO and SCOA
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: For nearly a century, two French-flagged tradin…
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Buyer’s Remorse: Senegal’s New Government vs. the Oil Deal It Inherited
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Woodside’s CEO called the Sangomar deal a…
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Stuck in the Mud: Niger’s Radioactive Convoy Going Nowhere
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This isn’t the story of uranium that succ…
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Either Way, I Lose: What AES’s New Border Levies Actually Cost
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: A cross-border trader summed up AES’s new…
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Public Option: What Ghana’s State-Run Terminal Proves the Private Model Didn’t Have To
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Most of this blog’s Ghana port coverage h…
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Words Don’t Cost Nothing: MSC’s Independence Promise at Lomé Didn’t Survive the Merger
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: When MSC moved to acquire Bolloré’s Afric…
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Public Option: What Ghana’s State-Run Terminal Proves the Private Model Didn’t Have To
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Most of this blog’s Ghana port coverage h…
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X-Ray Vision, Still Blind Spots: Apapa’s Scanners & the Smuggling Allegations That Followed
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: When Nigeria Customs unveiled its new scanning …