SUMMARY of Episode 6 – Cold War Pawns – After Hitler We continue to look at the growing conflict between the USA and the USSR. We look the conferences that took place between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. Then, first Roosevelt dies and then...
For today’s article, we will again make use of the book Why Nations Fail – The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty – by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robins (2012) – as we did on Part Five. In Part Five (the previous article) of our ongoing...
Please check out our previous articles on this series; that is, Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four For today’s discussion, we will use a book called Why Nations Fail – The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty; authored by Daron...
Please check out our previous articles on this series; that is, Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Today’s instalment, Part Four, of our discussion on the sources of African poverty will be based on a book by Ian Morris, called Why The West Rules –...
SUMMARY of Episode 5 – Cold War Pawns – The Second World War Paranoia reigns between the Western Allies (the USA and Britain) and the USSR. The countries allied against Adolf Hitler’s Germany meet to reach agreements; but those agreements are not...
SUMMARY about Episode 4 – Cold War Pawns – The Birth of Fear The USA and the USSR cross-paths. The relationship started from shaky ground from the very beginning. They were very different countries, with different outlooks. Maybe they would have...
On Part Two of our discussion on the sources of poverty in Africa, we cited a book by Martin Meredith. The book is called The State of Africa – A History of Fifty Years of Independence (2005); and we will use it for today’s instalment of our...
South Africa is celebrating Women’s Day today, on the 9th of August. We are aware that International Women’s Day is on the 8th of March. So we will talk briefly about both these days. Let us begin with International’s Women Day, in order to include...
On Part One we spoke about the colonial age; and Japan’s near brush with colonialism at the hands of US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry. What we left out from Part One is that Japan developed (at least development as the concept is understood in the...
SUMMARY of Episode 3 – Cold War Pawns – Africa and the Cold War In this episode of our Cold War Pawns series, we explain why we feel that a lot of background on the Cold War is required. We state that is it possible for the Cold War era...