Atlas of 19th c. African States

The Atlas of 19th century African States estimates the spatial extent of political centralization in sub-Saharan Africa in the 19th century. The dataset is introduced in the paper A Precolonial Paradox: Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies.

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Please cite the data as follows:

Wilfahrt, Martha. Forthcoming. A Precolonial Paradox: Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies. American Political Science Review.