Reckoning with Guinea-Bissau’s enduring political and economic stagnation

Lessons on postcolonial political decay in African states

I: Early postcolonial political decay in Africa

Guinea-Bissau may be a small country of just over 2 million people, but its political history offers important lessons on when the rain started beating many postcolonial African states. In less than a decade after independence, the country went from a hopeful (socialist) society with a mobilized citizenry u…