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

16th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network will take place 5-6 October 2023 at University of Pretoria (South Africa).

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AEHN Newsletter #57

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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


The Economics of Missionary Expansion

Rémi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Alexander Moradi - 16 February 2023

Among the world’s most powerful cultural transformations in modern history has been the rapid expansion of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa. While Christians made up barely 5% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population in 1900, the region has risen to be predominantly (57%)...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers


Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?

Yannick Dupraz and Rebecca Simson

Tubers and its Role in Historic Political Fragmentation in Africa

Nonso Obikili

The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia

Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati

Contact Us

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