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 #50

AEHN Blog Updates

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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

The Colonial Legacy of Corruption Among Local Elites in Africa

Merima Ali, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Abdulaziz B. Shifa - 19 July 2021

The Persistent Influence of Chiefs Our focus on chiefs, as opposed to the formal state, is a notable departure from much of the current literature on the determinants of corruption. Even though state capacity is considered an important precondition for...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers

Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt, Michiel de Haas and Federico Tadei

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

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26 Jul

Now online via #FirstView! Read @jelmer_vos and Paulo Teodoro de Matos's contribution to the upcoming JAH Forum, "Population Change and #Demography in #AfricanHistory" – https://bit.ly/3kOGqI1
#Angola #Slavery

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27 Jul

🚨NEW ARTICLE @HistoryRegions 🚨

I never thought I would write a paper about polygamy! But it turns out to be an important piece to understanding Africa's (colonial) history and long-run development... 🧵

https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1940946

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20 Jul

Last day to submit abstract and paper to RIDGE Conference

RIDGE@RIDGE_uy

XIII RIDGE FORUM
LACEA-EHN WORKSHOP ON
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

Call for Papers closes 20 July

To submit your paper click on http://www.ridge.uy/paper-submission

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