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

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 …

-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug …

systematic investigation of the relative costs of the different forms of wheeled transportation in Africa. We focus on … West Africa. We provide more speculative estimates of the social savings of other forms of wheeled transportation. We find … to have been a very good social investment in West Africa because they were cheap to build. We discuss some alternative …

South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political … households. At least to today, the political economy of South Africa has found a stable equilibrium with less than maximal …