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Founded in 2011, the network is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa, from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial era. The network publishes working papers in African Economic History and a newsletter. The network is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden.

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‘Hail the Census Night’: Trust and Political Imagination in the 1960 Population Census of Ghana

Posted on 27 August 2018 by

Gerardo Serra is Presidential Fellow in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the political and economic history of colonial and postcolonial Ghana and Nigeria and the history and sociology of economics and statistics in 20th...
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