Ewout Frankema
Ewout Frankema is professor and chair of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University. His research agenda focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term comparative economic development of developing regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia) and the historical origins and nature of present-day global inequality.
AEHN Textbook Chapters
AEHN Working Papers
2016
AEHN Working Paper #25
Gender, ethnicity and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of church record dataAEHN Working Paper #24
From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt
2014
AEHN Working Paper #16
Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Colonial Africa
2013
AEHN Working Paper #11
Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940AEHN Working Paper #10
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present
2012
AEHN Working Paper #1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
AEHN Blog Articles
Interview: Ewout Frankema
Ewout Frankema and Michiel de Haas - 10 April 2016From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt
Dacil Juif and Ewout Frankema - 2 February 2017Slave ship provisioning in the long 18th century. A boost to West African commercial agriculture?
Angus Dalrymple-Smith and Ewout Frankema - 30 May 2017An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835–1885
COVID-19 in Africa: Navigating Short- and Long-term Strategies
Marlous van Waijenburg and Ewout Frankema - 1 May 2020