Is colonization the most significant factor that has influenced development outcomes in Africa?Discuss. You can carry out a general discussion or focus on a single case.

Is colonization the most significant factor that has influenced development outcomes in Africa?Discuss. You can carry out a general discussion or focus on a single case.

List of possible sources:
Ake, C., 1981. A political economy of Africa. London; New York: Longman (chapters 2 and 3).

CASE STUDY Nii‐K Plange (1979) Underdevelopment in Northern Ghana: natural causes or colonial capitalism?, Review of African Political Economy, 6:15-16, 4-14, DOI: 10.1080/03056247908703393

Rempel, R., 2018. Colonialism and Development in Africa. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History (pp. 569-619). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.