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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).
Rémi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Alexander Moradi - 16 February 2023
Among the world’s most powerful cultural transformations in modern history has been the rapid expansion of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa. While Christians made up barely 5% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population in 1900, the region has risen to be predominantly (57%)...
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Yannick Dupraz and Rebecca Simson
Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati
I have written a short piece on cowrie shells as money for ReThink Quarterly https://rethinkq.adp.com/artifact-cowries-west-africa/ @GraceDobushToGo With a tale of my “most memorable paycheck”https://rethinkq.adp.com/author/karin-pallaver/😊
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