The question whether institutions in Africa were shaped by the metropolitan identity of the colonizer or by local … concession-owning companies and Africa of the labour reserves. Interestingly, we argue that Mozambique encompassed all three …

In this paper I use primary and secondary sources to quantify the role of tenant labour on settler farms in colonial … Africa, using Southern Rhodesia as a case in point. My findings show that the rise of wage labour did not mark the end of … labour tenancy, as has been assumed in previous literature. On the contrary, the two forms of labour co-existed. The results …

the extent to which the international slave trades transformed the institutions of slavery in Africa. I use newly …

for resource-rents caused a slowdown and in some instances reversed the progress made in consolidating state institutions …