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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.
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).
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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Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati
Sascha Klocke and Morten Jerven
📣 The Editorial Board is proud to announce the Biennial Prize to the Best Article published in #EHDR in 2020-21!
The winner is Prince Young Aboagye (@LuEconHist), for “Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20780389.2021.1921571
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