Understanding widowhood is an important part of understanding society; the lives of widows offer insights into how households and families are organized and what responses there are to those in need. The...
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Year: 2024
During the colonial period, European powers established various coercive economic institutions in their African territories. These included monopolies and monopsonies on trade, price controls, taxation, and forced labour. It is widely recognized...
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Previous research on the changing property rights associated with colonialism has focused on three groups of agents: colonial governments, indigenous populations, and settlers. The role of corporations in redefining property rights during...
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Over the past two decades, African Economic History research has surged. Many studies focus on the colonial period when bureaucratic apparatuses became developed enough to produce government documents. The precolonial period, in...
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Measuring elite persistence Rising inequality in the latter part of the 20th century has brought questions of class and social mobility solidly back onto the academic research agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa remains on...
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Zimbabwe’s industrial development has been well-studied with scholars showing opportunistic and exogenous factors such as the Great Depression, the outbreak of the Second World War, the establishment of the Central African Federation...
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Today, Africa is characterized by substantial variation in within-country income inequality covering a spectrum from relatively equal economies in West and North Africa to highly unequal countries in Central, Eastern, and especially...
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Colonial administrations introduced various social infrastructure in Africa. Scholars have studied their effects on education (Brown, 2000), and health care (Lasker, 1977; Patterson, 1981; Huillery, 2009; Lowes & Montero, 2021). A recent...
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Why slavery was practised in certain US regions and not in others and why specific groups of Africans were transported in such great numbers to the New World is both a historically...
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Indians and African Economic History Literature on the economic history of West Africa has privileged European, and especially British, multinational companies who conducted different types of trade in goods and raw materials...
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Colonial history has left its mark on the education systems of many developing countries. In Africa, the British colonial legacy on education has been more benign than the legacy of other colonisers,...
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