1/2: #WESTERN SAHARA: Francophone Africa and the tangle of post-colonial anarchy. Ronan Wordsworth, @GPFutures
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
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post-colonial anarchy. Ronan Wordsworth, @GPFutures
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| 0:56.2 | Western Sahara. This is the coast of Africa. |
| 1:00.4 | The coast is in dispute has been for many decades between those who claim this |
| 1:06.7 | territory from Morocco and those who claim it for other sovereignty and for a group called the Polisario which has been in |
| 1:15.3 | rebellion for decades. To help me understand this part of the world I welcome |
| 1:20.8 | Ronan Wordsworth of Geopolitical Futures. |
| 1:23.5 | He's an analyst. |
| 1:25.0 | He's also South African, so this is his continent. |
| 1:28.6 | It is a very large map that we need to understand. This is the Sahil, the edge of the Sahara, up against the Atlantic. |
| 1:38.0 | Right offshore, the Canary Islands, if that helps at all. |
| 1:42.0 | This is a part of the world that was |
| 1:45.4 | conquered by the Portuguese sailors as they move south to round Africa and then |
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