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

Newsletter #44 September 2019

AEHN Blog Updates

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Funding

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.

The network is currently funded by:

Rural and Environmental History, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden

ERC Starting Grant Program

Blog: Frontiers in African Economic History

Interethnic and Interfaith Marriages in Sub-Saharan Africa

Juliette Crespin-Boucaud - 21 November 2019

What can we learn from studying intermarriage shares? The shares of intermarriages have long been used to study the salience of cleavages within societies (Kalmijn 1998). Looking at marriage patterns gives us a sense of who meets whom and of...
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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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Felix Meier zu Selhausen @FelixMzS1·

3 Dec

Official book lauch today of "Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education" @gabercappe @PalgraveEcon at @uniGoettingen presenting my work on missionary expansion, African agency, colonial education, gender & long-term impact. Thanks to @BasuDeepankar for great discussion!

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Michiel de Haas @MichieldeHaas·

4 Dec

/1 Proud to share my new paper in the Journal of African History @JAH_editors on the large scale migration from Rwanda and Burundi to Uganda during the colonial era: http://bit.ly/2P9Paal Here are some key findings

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30 Nov

Africa Economic History 1st round WEHC panels have overtaken the frequency of both North American and Latin American session proposals!

World Economic History Congress@WEHC2021

Some stats about the 98 selected proposals for the f1rst CFS #WEHC2021.

We expect to complete some underrepresented categories with the 2nd CFS opening february 2020!

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Contact Us

To get in touch, please send an email to: [email protected]