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The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
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Cagé, J., & Rueda, V. (2016). The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(3), 69-99. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20140379

This article investigates the long-term consequences of the printing press in the nineteenth century sub-Saharan Africa on social capital nowadays. Protestant missionaries were the first to import the printing press and to allow the indigenous popula... Read More about The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa.