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Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades. Nathan Nunn, February 27, 2017, Paper, "Evidence suggests that Africa's slave trades played an important part in the shaping of the continent not only in terms of economic outcomes, but cultural and social outcomes as well. This column, taken from a recently published VoxEU eBook, summarises studies that reveal the lasting toxic effects of Africa’s four waves of slave trades on contemporary development." Link