Notes – Africa x CARICOM

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Trade Diaries

Cotonou: A Reversed Imperial Preference

The lack of kinetic progress in economic cooperation between the AU and CARICOM over the years can also be attributed to the trade incentives and market orientations created by the Lomé Convention and the Cotonou Agreements.

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A Historical Narrative of Africa-Caribbean Relations

On September 7th, 2021, the African Union (AU) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) sought to strengthen their alliance by way of Summitry, thereby producing the first-ever AU–CARICOM Summit. This summital marriage was not by any stretch the first effort in…

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Plantation Economy

A Model of Plantation Economy

This thesis will rest on the explanatory powers of “A Model of Plantation Economy”, with most strenuous reliance on Lloyd Best’s (1968) Rules of the Game. Posited by some of the Caribbean’s most eminent scholars, “A Model of Plantation Economy…