As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent …'s economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus … Africa's post-independence maladies, we first review works that uncover the lasting legacies of colonial investments in …

Africa or those farther away from the equator do not have lower incomes …

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with …

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …

Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a terms of trade boom that was comparable to other parts of the 'global periphery' from the … Africa. We also show that the accelerated export growth after the establishment of colonial rule deepened Africa …

We examine the long-run consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover …