Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The by Klas Rönnbäck

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By Klas Rönnbäck

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest quarter on the planet. yet its present prestige has skewed our figuring out of the economic climate ahead of colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the residing criteria of the inhabitants at a time while the Atlantic slave exchange introduced cash and males into the realm, enriching our figuring out of West African monetary development.

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