Colonial Legacies, Collective Efficacy, and Rural Development: Evidence from the Togo-Ghana Border

• In Event: Colonial Legacies in African Politics

Brief Overview

This paper argues that modes of colonial control had a lasting legacy on local collective efficacy in rural West Africa. Original survey data from the Ghana-Togo borderlands shows that collective efficacy is systematically higher in Ghana today.

Authors

• Martha Wilfahrt, University of California-Berkeley

• Natalie Wenzell Letsa, Michigan State University