Welcome…

to the African Economic History Network

The African Economic History Network (AEHN) is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying the long-term development of sub-Saharan Africa, from the pre-colonial era to the present-day. The AEHN holds an annual conference, publishes a working papers series in African Economic History and an open-source textbook The History of African Development, as well as a blog and a newsletter. The network was founded in 2011 with financial assistance from the Swedish Riksbanken.

Our Mission

Annual Meeting

The 15th Annual Meeting of the AEHN 2020 will take place in October at University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa). Dates to be communicated.

Latest Newsletter


AEHN Newsletter #46, May 2020

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If you or your organisation would like to know more about the activities of the AEHN and how best to support these, please contact us for more information.

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Blog: Frontiers in African Economic History


Labour market formation in post-slavery Africa: Ruanda-Urundi migrants and Buganda’s low wage economy

Michiel de Haas - 1 June 2020

Introduction Analyzing post-slavery labour markets in sub-Saharan Africa, economic historians have stressed the abundance of land relative to labour (e.g. Austin 2019). In such conditions, if an employer wanted prospective labourers to part with their independently cultivated farm, the argument...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers


African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa

Morten Jerven

The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development

Rémi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Alexander Moradi

Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa

Felix Meier zu Selhausen

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