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The legacy of the slave trade continues to impact on African economic development, the Centre for Economic Policy Research has told us.

Their report establishes that topography impacts on a country’s economy. Countries with mountains find it harder to establish trade and utilise productive land, so the more rugged your country’s terrain the bigger the disadvantage. Interesting enough.

But the report finds the reverse in Africa. The continent’s mountain communities have prospered relative to their counterparts on flatter land, who had their populations decimated by slave traders.

However as Africans ran for the hills, to escape the traders, problems associated with mountainous living have been exacerbated by the population pressure.

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