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Professor Ehret urged the audience to resist pervasive, incomplete and quite often false stereotypes of Africa as a continent somehow cut off from the rest of humanity, less developed, and unchanging.....

At the beginning of the colonial era in the mid-1880s, after the periods of the slave trade and the Scramble for Africa, the average person’s income in sub-Saharan Africa was one third .....

The Wheeler Institute’s open access online course, African History through the Lens of Economics, concluded with three plenary lectures covering the impact of foreign aid, the reasons why Africa can be optimistic about the....

Professor Wantchekon offers a unique perspective on African history and political institutions, being – in his words – a ‘young child from a peasant family in Central Benin who excelled in math......

Professor Papaioannou started this special lecture with the challenge of presenting a full picture of African economic development using traditional measures based on GDP,...

The penultimate lecture in the Wheeler Institute’s open access online course, African History through the Lens of Economics, considered the impact of education on social mobility in Africa....

Professor Michalopoulos’s lecture reviewed the development of a research agenda over the past few years that has looked at how political institutions shape African economic performance....

A reflective essay on the full lecture series by David Jones, MBA 2022 graduate from London Business School and intern at the Wheeler Institute…