Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism
YawNewsletter on the intersections developmental econ, geopolitics, finance, and African history. Bio: Ghanaian-American, MIT grad, Data Analytics & Product Manager @ Big Entertainment firm. Ex- Aerospace Engineer. Not an expert, but always learning.
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Why Canada Fell Behind America, Plus labor productivity, my research process, and what I do for a living. (And a thank-you to 6,000 of you!)
America & Canada
#Q1 “Hey Yaw, I live in Canada and I am thinking of moving to the US. Can you give me a rundown of their economies? Canada is so resource-rich and has higher human capital than America, so why is Canada lagging?”
Let’...
Nigeria's Corruption Machine: How the Second Republic Built a System That Could Only Run in One Direction
Is Nigeria better under military government or civilian democracy? Let’s see if we can learn any lessons from Nigeria’s Second Republic.
Recap
Last time, I discussed how military leaders Murtala and Obasanjo transitioned Nigeria bac...
The High-Wage Trap: Why Nigeria’s Oil Wealth Killed Its Factories in the late 1970s
American President Jimmy Carter and Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo looking like they are ready to drop the greatest mixtape of all time
Intro
Imagine thinking that you have so much oil money that your head of state can (allegedly) t...
How the First Five Nuclear Powers Built Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
After America and Israel struck Iran, I wanted to understand how countries actually build nuclear weapons: both the politics and the mechanics.
One of the strikes on Iran
Making a Nuke
It starts in a laboratory in Berlin in 1938, whe...
The Making of Nigeria’s Petrostate: Gowon's Post War Years
Yakubu Gowon, in exile, with his kids
Intro
Last time, we covered the Nigerian Civil War.
The attempted map & flag of Biafra. Igbos were the main ethnic group of Biafra
In January 1970, Nigeria was exhausted. The civil war had ende...
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