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.

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AEHN Newsletter #49 February

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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


Things Fall Apart? Missions, Institutions, and Interpersonal Trust

Dozie Okoye - 5 May 2021

There has been renewed interest in the long-term effects of colonial-era Christian missionary activities on African economies today. Most of this work focuses on the long-run   effects of missionary activities on human capital and its implications for society today....
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers


Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960

Erik Green and Mark Nyandoro

Why Africa is not that Poor

Ewout Frankema

The Fruits of the Boom: Real Wages and Housing Costs in Dakar, Senegal (1914-1960)

Tom Westland

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