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Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa are a libertarians paradise. The region as a whole is a low-tax utopia, with governments often unable to collect more than about 10 percent of GDP in taxes, compared to 50 percent in parts of Europe. Rather than unleashing entrepreneurship, this low rate of taxation means that basic public services like health, education, and pothole filling are starved of funding.

Some of the best written pop history/political theory. Everything is so nice and easy to read. This kind of stuff can also be harmful. A reader could hold onto some of the generalizations such as ‘the caste system was largely unscathed by British colonialism’ and ‘Islam effectively removed Christianity as a major religion of the Middle East.’ Still useful info in here, though. Thanks Francis