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 #49 February

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

The Influence of Colonialism on Africa’s Welfare: An Anthropometric Study

Jörg Baten and Laura Maravall - 30 March 2021

Although it is undeniable that overall welfare was reduced because of colonialism, the evolution of some dimensions of welfare such as education, health or income has given rise to some debate. The common view is that living standards declined during...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers

Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960

Erik Green and Mark Nyandoro

Why Africa is not that Poor

Ewout Frankema

The Fruits of the Boom: Real Wages and Housing Costs in Dakar, Senegal (1914-1960)

Tom Westland

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African Economic History Network (AEHN)@AfEconHis·

12 Apr

Chapter overview of @JohanFourieZA new book: "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom" #econhist @LEAP_SU

Johan Fourie@JohanFourieZA

'Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom' is my new book out now on @AmazonKindle: https://amzn.to/3toaTxW

What is it about?

#OurLongWalk is an accessible introduction to global economic history from an African perspective. I summarize each of the first 17 chapters below...

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African Economic History Network (AEHN)@AfEconHis·

7 Apr

We are greatly looking forward to feature @JohanFourieZA new book on the AEHN Blog later this April! 📕

Johan Fourie@JohanFourieZA

My first book - Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom - is now on @AmazonKindle!

More info: http://ourlongwalk.org/

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#ourlongwalk

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African Economic History Network (AEHN)@AfEconHis·

30 Mar

Great summary of research presented at this years @Oxford_CSAE 2021 Conference compiled by @DaveEvansPhD

David Evans@DaveEvansPhD

This is from the #OxCSAE2021 conference. Read more papers here. https://www.cgdev.org/blog/whats-latest-economic-research-africa-round-nearly-one-hundred-studies-csae-2021 @AcostaAminaM @Oxford_CSAE

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