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

15th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network will take place 13-14 October 2022 at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).

Latest Newsletter


AEHN Newsletter #55 – August

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:

Blog: Frontiers in African Economic History


Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008: Evidence from Eight Countries

Stephen Broadberry and Leigh Gardner - 19 March 2022

Research on African economic performance has often focused on the question of why Africa has underperformed other regions. The only available data on Africa’s long-run economic performance began in 1950, and showed that most African economies had grown little between...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers


The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia

Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati

Skill, Race, and Income Inequality in the Wage Sector in British Tanganyika

Sascha Klocke

The Nexus between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Lessons from Long-term Trends in Tanzania, 1961-2017

Sascha Klocke and Morten Jerven

Contact Us

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