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

The 15th Annual Meeting of the AEHN 2020 will take place in October at University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa). Dates to be communicated.

Latest Newsletter


Newsletter #44 September 2019

AEHN Newsletter

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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


Interethnic and Interfaith Marriages in Sub-Saharan Africa

Juliette Crespin-Boucaud - 21 November 2019

What can we learn from studying intermarriage shares? The shares of intermarriages have long been used to study the salience of cleavages within societies (Kalmijn 1998). Looking at marriage patterns gives us a sense of who meets whom and of...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers


African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa

Morten Jerven

The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development

Rémi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Alexander Moradi

Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa

Felix Meier zu Selhausen

Contact Us

To get in touch, please send an email to: [email protected]