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

16th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network will take place 5-6 October 2023 at University of Pretoria (South Africa).

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AEHN Newsletter #56

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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:

Blog: Frontiers in African Economic History


Migration in Africa: Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century

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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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

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