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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.
16th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network will take place 5-6 October 2023 at University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Laura Maravall, Jörg Baten and Johan Fourie - 7 September 2023
Addressing endogeneity in favoritism studies A large literature on favoritism in Africa argues that leaders favor their own ethnicity or administrative birthplace. This narrative of nepotistic bias posits that leaders often channel resources toward these regions, driving significant infrastructure development....
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Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Jacob Weisdorf
Leo Dolan
Bastian Becker and Felix Meier zu Selhausen
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