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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.

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22 Sep

📢New AEHN Article Summary by @MichieldeHaas @RHI_WUR in the European Review of Economic History @The_EHES :

"Reconstructing Income Inequality in a Colonial Cash Crop Economy: Five Social Tables for #Uganda , 1925–1965"

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https://www.aehnetwork.org/blog/reconstructing-income-inequality-in-a-colonial-cash-crop-economy-five-social-tables-for-uganda-1925-1965/

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Avatar Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @LEAP_SU·

21 Sep

Details for the next LEAP #webinar, presented by
@ThomasMareite affiliated with @AtlanticExiles

Series Title: Slavery, Emancipation and Legacies.

Date: Wednesday 22 September 2021, 13h00 – 14h00 (GMT+2).

Via Zoom, DM to be added to the mail list.

#econhist #econtwitter

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Avatar The Journal of African History @JAH_editors·

20 Sep

In the new JAH Forum, Gerardo Serra and @MJerven explore media controversies over #Nigeria's 1963 census, revealing links between population counting and political imagination.

Available now via #OpenAccess - https://bit.ly/3jBRFl4

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Welcome…

to the African Economic History Network

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AEHN Newsletter #51 August

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The network is currently funded by:

Blog: Frontiers in African Economic History

Reconstructing Income Inequality in a Colonial Cash Crop Economy: Five Social Tables for Uganda, 1925–1965

AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers

State-Church Synergies in Colonial Empires: Longitudinal Evidence on Missionary Expansion in Africa

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

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

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