The Troubled Waters of Africa: Piracy in the African Littoral
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In contrast to almost any other part of the globe, piracy off Africa has the potential to harm the continent's growth prospects adversely. This article seeks to identify the characteristics of piracy that are peculiar to Africa. It reviews piracy's recent history using the author's established analytical framework before examining the two most serious outbreaks—those off Somalia and Nigeria—in greater depth. It argues that piracy is the seaward manifestation of domestic economic inefficiency, inequitable resource distribution, and conflict before suggestion why and how the problem might spread to new areas by feeding on, and in turn feeding, political disruption and economic marginalization. It concludes by suggesting that given the continent's dependence on resource exports through a limited number of ports and across waters that most states are unable to secure effectively, continuing failure to address these security shortcomings could retard development goals miring millions in continuing misery.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it