TASK
Is colonization the most significant factor that has influenced development outcomes in
Africa? You can carry out a general discussion or focus on a single case.
List of possible sources:
* Ake, C., 1981. A political economy of Africa. London; New York: Longman (chapters 2 and 3).
*Amin, S., 1972. Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa—origins and contemporary forms. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 10(4), pp.503-524.
*Austin, G., 2010. African Economic Development and Colonial Legacies. International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement [En ligne], 1 | 2010, mis en ligne le 11 mars 2010, consulté le 23 janvier 2013. URL : http://poldev.revues.org/78 ; DOI : 10.4000/poldev.78.
*Acemoglu, D., S., Johnson and J. &A., Robinson. 2001. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. American Economic Review, 91: 1369–1401.
CASE STUDY Nii‐K Plange (1979) Underdevelopment in Northern Ghana: natural causes or colonial capitalism?, Review of African Political Economy, 6:15-16, 4-14, DOI: 10.1080/03056247908703393
*Rempel, R., 2018. Colonialism and Development in Africa. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History (pp. 569-619). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
*Rodney, W., 2018. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Verso Trade. Chapters 2,4 and 6
CASE STUDY Smith. J., 2018. From colonisation to globalisation: a history of state capture by the tobacco industry in Malawi. Review of African Political Economy, 45 (156), pp. 186-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2018.1431213
CASE STUDY Tadei. F., 2018. The Long-Term Effects of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from Trade Policies in Colonial French Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions 33 (3), pp. 183-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2018.1527685
CASE STUDY Woods. D., 2003. The tragedy of the cocoa pod: rent-seeking, land and ethnic conflict in Ivory Coast. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 41 (4),pp. 641-655. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X03004427
