Can the slave trade explain Africa's propensity for conflict? Using variation in slave exports driven by the … propensities in pre-colonial Africa and that this effect has persisted to the present. Moreover, we find empirical evidence …

With less than 50% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa having access to modern forms of energy and the desire to …

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 …

investigate how heterogeneous agents in precolonial Africa relied on social distance-reducing signals to make trade with one … stifling trade between diverse agents, colonial institutions contributed to Africa's poor economic growth …