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7 episodes
since July 21, 2026
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Send us Fan Mail Liberia’s origin story gets repeated so often that a more important truth disappears: before any settler republic, indigenous Liberians were already governing, trading, teaching, and building institutions that lasted for centuries. We begin with what was there first, from the Kru m…

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Send us Fan Mail Francafrique isn’t a conspiracy buzzword. It’s a French-invented name for a system that outlived colonialism, then became a public indictment once French journalists, judges, and court records made the machinery visible: military bases, aligned presidents, currency and resource lev…
Send us Fan Mail “Africa is poor” sounds like a fact until you ask one simple question: how does a continent with vast arable land, major mineral reserves, and critical resources like cobalt and oil end up with such persistent poverty outcomes? We challenge the default story and lay out a different…
Send us Fan Mail Liberia gets introduced to the world as an exception: the first African republic, never formally colonized, a Black flag flying through the colonial era. That story is true, but it is not complete. We start with the country’s motto, “The love of liberty brought us here,” and ask th…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Africa Decoded, we take a deep dive into one of Africa's most consequential and misunderstood stories—the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rich in natural resources yet marked by decades of conflict, foreign intervention, and political instability, the Cong…
Send us Fan Mail Africa Was Never Poor: Understanding the History Behind the Narrative For generations, the world has been told that Africa is a poor continent. But is that the full story? In the premiere episode of Africa Decoded, host Paul Thomas, MBA-HCM, examines one of the most enduring narrat…
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