Yaw Asamoah
@yawasa.bsky.social
MIT MBA grad, product manager at a decently big tech firm.
Writer on African politics.
https://yawboadu.substack.com/
Writer on African politics.
https://yawboadu.substack.com/
Outstanding vid. Learned a lot. Holy moley. It was well worth the wait.
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Outstanding vid. Learned a lot. Holy moley. It was well worth the wait.
Nigeria didn't find crude oil & gas until BP & Shell found it 4 years before independence in 1956 near the Niger Delta.
www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
From post slave trade in 1800s to 1910s, nigeria's main export was palm oil. From 1910 to 1970: cocoa, peanuts & cotton. After 1970: crude oil.
www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
From post slave trade in 1800s to 1910s, nigeria's main export was palm oil. From 1910 to 1970: cocoa, peanuts & cotton. After 1970: crude oil.
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Nigeria didn't find crude oil & gas until BP & Shell found it 4 years before independence in 1956 near the Niger Delta.
www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
From post slave trade in 1800s to 1910s, nigeria's main export was palm oil. From 1910 to 1970: cocoa, peanuts & cotton. After 1970: crude oil.
www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
From post slave trade in 1800s to 1910s, nigeria's main export was palm oil. From 1910 to 1970: cocoa, peanuts & cotton. After 1970: crude oil.
Sadly, Traore doesn't monitor his militias adequately. The militias like VDP have become Fulani lynch mobs. They go to fula villages since, sadly, a disproportionate number of them are in JNIM. They kill innocents, and then JNIM gets more recruits. Doom loop.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sadly, Traore doesn't monitor his militias adequately. The militias like VDP have become Fulani lynch mobs. They go to fula villages since, sadly, a disproportionate number of them are in JNIM. They kill innocents, and then JNIM gets more recruits. Doom loop.
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
Thanks for bringing this to attention. Niger has issues too.
The junta leaders are so stupid. I'm ghanaian, and when I go back, I see scores of refugee burkinabe women who feel like they have lost all their dignity.
US is currently training ghanaian soldiers to prepare for if JNIM wins the sahel.
The junta leaders are so stupid. I'm ghanaian, and when I go back, I see scores of refugee burkinabe women who feel like they have lost all their dignity.
US is currently training ghanaian soldiers to prepare for if JNIM wins the sahel.
September 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thanks for bringing this to attention. Niger has issues too.
The junta leaders are so stupid. I'm ghanaian, and when I go back, I see scores of refugee burkinabe women who feel like they have lost all their dignity.
US is currently training ghanaian soldiers to prepare for if JNIM wins the sahel.
The junta leaders are so stupid. I'm ghanaian, and when I go back, I see scores of refugee burkinabe women who feel like they have lost all their dignity.
US is currently training ghanaian soldiers to prepare for if JNIM wins the sahel.
Hopefully, this deal lasts longer than a decade. Rwanda and Congo have signed multiple deals in the past (Pretoria agreement 2002 and Addis Ababa agreement in 2013). I am sure we'll be back here in the 2030s. Click below to learn why they had issues:
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
The Economic & Geopolitical History of Rwanda Part IV: Rwanda-Congo Issues & Kagame's Stewardship
Kagame: Half "Mr. Security", Half "Mr. Brand Marketer"
https://open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu/p/the-economic-and-geopolitical-history-174?r=garki&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false…
June 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hopefully, this deal lasts longer than a decade. Rwanda and Congo have signed multiple deals in the past (Pretoria agreement 2002 and Addis Ababa agreement in 2013). I am sure we'll be back here in the 2030s. Click below to learn why they had issues:
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
Hopefully, this deal lasts longer than a decade. Rwanda and Congo have signed multiple deals in the past (Pretoria agreement 2002 and Addis Ababa agreement in 2013). I am sure we'll be back here in the 2030s. Click below to learn why they had issues:
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
The Economic & Geopolitical History of Rwanda Part IV: Rwanda-Congo Issues & Kagame's Stewardship
Kagame: Half "Mr. Security", Half "Mr. Brand Marketer"
https://open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu/p/the-economic-and-geopolitical-history-174?r=garki&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false…
June 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hopefully, this deal lasts longer than a decade. Rwanda and Congo have signed multiple deals in the past (Pretoria agreement 2002 and Addis Ababa agreement in 2013). I am sure we'll be back here in the 2030s. Click below to learn why they had issues:
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...
open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu...