Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times

Denis Cogneau () and Alexander Moradi

No 4/2012, African Economic History Working Paper from African Economic History Network

Abstract: The partition of German Togoland after WWI provides a natural experiment allowing to test what impact colonial policies really had. Using a data set of recruits to the Ghana colonial army 1908-1955, we find literacy and religious beliefs to diverge at the border between British and French mandated part of Togoland as early as in the 1920s. We attribute this to the different policies towards missionary schools. The divergence is only visible in the South where educational and evangelization efforts were strong enough. Using contemporary survey data we find that border effects originated at colonial times still persist today.

Keywords: Africa; German Togoland; colonial policies; missionary schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N37 N97 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2013-06-17
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