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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.
16th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network will take place 5-6 October 2023 at University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Michiel de Haas and Ewout Frankema - 3 February 2023
Africans on the global migration scene: past and present African migration figures prominently in global headlines, and often not in a positive light. The massacre in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa on June 24, 2022, is only...
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Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati
Sascha Klocke and Morten Jerven
Welcome to our new editors of Frontiers in African Economic History - AEHN's Blog - @JeanneCil @abel_gwaindepi .
Thanks so much to our long-serving founders @FelixMzS1 @MichieldeHaas . Since 2016, c. 80 top published papers were summarized on 🌍 EH!!!
https://www.aehnetwork.org/blog/
The Economic History Department at Utrecht University has a new Assistant Prof opening.
We’re looking for an assistant professor to join us here in Utrecht! Deadline 26/2/23 https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij-de-universiteit-utrecht/vacatures/assistant-professor-in-economic-and-social-history-10-fte contact @CarmichaelSG for any questions regarding the position! Feel free to share in your own network.
To get in touch, please send an email to: [email protected]
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