Akyeampong, Emmanuel - Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective.

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn and James A. Robinson, eds.,
Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the chapters take a comparative perspective, placing Africa's developments aside other global patterns. The readership for this book spans from the informed lay reader with an interest in Africa, academics and undergraduate and graduate students, policy makers, and those in the development world.

Emmanuel Akyeampong Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies Teaches Courses on West African history, Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, comparative slavery, gender in African history, health, disease, and ecology in African history, and the social history of alcohol. Offers graduate research seminar on sources, methods and themes in African history. Research interests include ecology, social history, cultural history, disease and medicine, the African diaspora, political economy and trade. Read more...