systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 – 1900 …

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 …

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …

empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory …

-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial …

We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the prevalence … of the mutation that causes sickle cell disease we measure the impact of malaria on mortality in Africa prior to the …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided during the slave trades. Since … the slave trades retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness has also had a historical indirect … for Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we also provide …