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

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).

Latest Newsletter

AEHN Newsletter #56

AEHN Blog Updates

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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

Colonial Legacies, Ethnicity and Fertility Decline in Kenya: What has Financial Inclusion got to do with it?

Maren Duvendack and Richard Palmer-Jones - 20 October 2022

Linking fertility decline to financial inclusion Kenya experienced a steep decline in fertility from the late 1970s until the mid-1990s. Fertility reduction then stalled in the mid-1990s coinciding with a reduction in support for family planning programmes, but resumed with...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers

The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia

Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati

Skill, Race, and Income Inequality in the Wage Sector in British Tanganyika

Sascha Klocke

The Nexus between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Lessons from Long-term Trends in Tanzania, 1961-2017

Sascha Klocke and Morten Jerven

Twitter Feed

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1 Aug

Congratulations Kate Frederick @ESH_UU for winning @WEHC2022 Dissertation Prize: Deindustrialization in East Africa: Textile Production in a Era of Globalization and Colonization 1830-1940.

Great track-record of African EH in WEHC Prizes: Boston: Marlous vW
Kyoto: @JohanFourieZA

XIX World Economic History Congress, Paris 2022@WEHC2022

#WEHC2022 Awards Ceremony!

Congratulations to all the winners of the three Competitions! 4

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28 Jul

🚨NEW PAPER OUT🚨

I'm excited to share my latest contribution to @JHPE_journal, in which I unpack the black-box that is colonialism by shedding light on State-Church relationships.. 🧵 https://twitter.com/JHPE_journal/status/1552343310672338945

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New in @JHPE_journal: @beckerbastian uses new historical data (1792–1924) to provide a new account of the modern missionary movement in Africa and to estimate the causal impact of the continent’s colonization on the missionary empire. Free w/registration. https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/HPE-0032 3

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28 Jul

Johan Fourie telling us about the state of economic history in Africa

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