(NEO)Colonialism

S. Korea and Kenya may have had the same GDP per capita in the 1960s, but they were not on the same level of economic development @oliverwkim https://t.co/jpdo9OgCZt

— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) January 28, 2025

As a settler-colony, Kenya actually had a relatively high level of colonial investment; in the most infamous case, at independence, the Belgians left only 30 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with two years of schooling at the university level.

— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) January 28, 2025

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No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 

by Oliver Kim

With A Personal Coda

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