We investigate the role of initial conditions at colonial independence on economic growth in Africa in the post-independence period using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA). A key innovation in our estimation methodology is that we incorporate parameter heterogeneity in model averaging as well as try to mitigate the endogeneity problem present in growth regressions. In order to ensure that differen...

Very little scholarship has specifically considered the phenomenon of eviction as a colonial process, or examined role legal system in reproducing structures and relations. Our aim this article is to address gap thereby extend context work scholars who have theorized colonialism criminal justice, child welfare, carceral systems. This begins with an overview current issues relating urban Indigen...

It is commonplace enough to observe that nineteenth century Britain could not forever maintain her global hegemony. The world's first industrial power was bound to be challenged by the rise of modern industrial economies in the United States, Germany and Japan. Similarly, the contraction of the capitalist world and the collapse of colonialism were events over which Britain had little direct con...

An educational system and its curricula are shaped by the culture and epistemology in which it is embedded. It is influenced by the societal knowledge, but it also instrumental in shaping the knowledge of the society. Culture influences learning style. Based on cultural diversities and social needs, different societies have distinct curricula. As such, Oromo students ought to be taught now to i...

This essay examines the relationship between African American internal colonialism and democracy, highlighting complexities of democracy that make it both susceptible to oppressive violence at home abroad, as well a potential resource for emancipation equality. I understand “internal colonialism” here encompass various terms used by Americans beginning in 1830s, including semi-colonialism, dome...