Social capital in the present day linked to printing press locations a century ago
Three measures of social capital reported in the 2005 and 2008 Afrobarometer surveys, as a function of respondents' distance to a historical mission with a printing press in the early 1900s. Respondents who live closer to locations where Protestant missionaries had established printing presses a century ago reported higher rates of newspaper readership and trust, and greater educational attainment.