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 #45, February 2020

AEHN Blog Updates

Email Address

AEHN Newsletter

Subscribe to the bi-monthly AEHN Newsletter.

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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

Writing economic history with the Archives nationales du Sénégal

Tom Westland - 17 February 2020

The richness and professionalism of the Senegalese national archives has long been acknowledged by historians of West Africa. Unlike several other countries in West Africa, where political upheaval or civil war have inflicted considerable damage on archival institutions, the Senegalese...
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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

Twitter Feed

African Economic History Network (AEHN)@AfEconHis·

13 Feb

CFP for Annual Meeting of the @AfEconHis at @UFSweb @SouthAfrica 21-23 September 2020. Deadline 30 March. #bloemfontein #econhist

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Cambridge World History @CamWorldHistory·

5 Feb

Congratulations to Laura Channing on her recent article in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2019.1706789

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African Economic History Network (AEHN)@AfEconHis·

4 Feb

Job vacancy at @LSEEcHist LSE: Fellow in African Economic History

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider

[email protected] is hiring an LSE Fellow in African Economic History to begin September 2020. 2-year fixed-term appointment with possible extension for another year. Please share and apply!

@AfEconHis @EcHistSoc @EconHistAssoc @The_EHES @WEHC2021

https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/3163/0/260589/15539/lse-fellow-african-economic-history

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Contact Us

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