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Franklin Cudjoe

Coups cannot thrive in a Freer and Prosperous Africa

September 11, 2023

Africa’s rise has consistently been truncated by repressive governance, large-scale centralised government, extractive institutions, and headstrong leaders who see politics as an avenue to harvest their loot by hook or crook.

Long before Covid-19 and the Russia- Ukraine war the …

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News Analysis

Nigeria’s Border Closure Defies Rationality and the Economics of Free Trade

Franklin Cudjoe

November 5, 2019

Nigeria has closed its borders until January 2020, stifling the free flow of goods and people within the West African sub-region.

There is an assumption that Nigeria will automatically become prosperous by closing its borders to other markets, in furtherance …

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