In fact, this claim helps me diagnose the continuous exoticness of the long history and process of state formations that took place in Africa before the arrival of Europeans in Africa. Hereafter, arguing that colonizers did not settle for ecological reasons and that this pushed them into implementing extractive policies along with awful institutions racking African development today, is simply inconsistent. Yet overwhelming historical facts show that almost every corner of Africa was settled by African kingdoms and empires before the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century. If that was the case, Africa today would not be appropriate for any human habitation. While I acknowledge the underlying outrageous consequences of the multiple segregationist institutions and racist policies implemented by European colonizers in Africa, it does not fallow they did not settle in Sub-Saharan Africa for this one particular reason. So, they conclude, this institutions persisted until today, which holds back the economic performance of the victims. Robinson in their theory of institutional differences among countries colonized by Europeans, argue that in places “where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and were more likely to set up extractive institutions” (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001) and attribute the creation of extractive institutions to this mere correlation. Many researchers including Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A.
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