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

AEHN Newsletter #51 August

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

The Colonial Legacy of Corruption Among Local Elites in Africa

Merima Ali, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Abdulaziz B. Shifa - 19 July 2021

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The Persistent Influence of Chiefs Our focus on chiefs, as opposed to the formal state, is a notable departure from much of the current literature on the determinants of corruption. Even though state capacity is considered an important precondition for...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers

State-Church Synergies in Colonial Empires: Longitudinal Evidence on Missionary Expansion in Africa

Bastian Becker

Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt, Michiel de Haas and Federico Tadei

Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960

Erik Green and Mark Nyandoro

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15 Sep

TODAY 2021 LEAP LECTURE by @dozieokoye_PhD @ 18:00 (CET & ZA time)

Johan Fourie@JohanFourieZA

Join us later today for the 6th annual LEAP Lecture, with @dozieokoye_PhD! https://twitter.com/LEAP_SU/status/1437348134703833088

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14 Sep

Since 2012 the @AfEconHis runs its AEHN Working Paper Series 📔. We welcome submissions from interdisciplinary fields: African Social & Economic History, Development Economics, African History, Demography and Sociology. @repec_org 📖🧠💻🔍

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13 Sep

In 1 hour!! The 2021-22 series of #EHDR seminars starts with Leonard le Roux (Sciences Po) speaking about "Traditional Leaders And Local Government In South Africa".

No registration is required. Zoom details: http://www.ehssa.org.za/index.php/workshops-and-conferences/. https://twitter.com/HistoryRegions/status/1436239614608617473

Economic History of Developing Regions@HistoryRegions

📡📡We're happy to announce a new series of #EHDR VIRTUAL SEMINARS, including work by @sevenagir, @LArroyoAbad, @thaleszp, and others.

*When? Every second Monday, at 3 PM UK, starting September 13.

*To see our full schedule and obtain Zoom links go to http://www.ehssa.org.za/index.php/workshops-and-conferences/

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