Johan Fourie – African Economic History Network

Johan Fourie is Professor in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Economic History. He obtained his PhD at Utrecht University in 2012, has published in several leading economic history journals, is coordinator of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP).

AEHN Textbook Chapters

The Rise of Education in Africa
Sarah Ferber, Johan Fourie and Felix Meier zu Selhausen

AEHN Working Papers

2020

AEHN Working Paper #53
When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset
Kate Ekama, Johan Fourie, Hans Hesse and Lisa Martin

2012

AEHN Working Paper #1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph Inikori, Alexander Moradi and Ellen Hillbom

AEHN Blog Articles

The data revolution in African Economic History
Johan Fourie - 7 November 2016
Mineral Beneficence in Developing Regions: Insights from the Cape’s Public Finance Policies, 1820-1910
Abel Gwaindepi, Krige Siebrits and Johan Fourie - 21 December 2020
Legacies of Loss: The Health Outcomes of Slaveholder Compensation in the British Cape Colony
Igor Martins, Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie - 3 April 2023

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AEHN Textbook Chapters

The Rise of Education in Africa

AEHN Working Papers

2020

AEHN Working Paper #53When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset

2019

AEHN Working Paper #47The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries

2018

AEHN Working Paper #42Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier

2016

AEHN Working Paper #30“For the Public Benefit” Railways in the British Cape Colony

2012

AEHN Working Paper #1Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources

AEHN Blog Articles

The data revolution in African Economic History

Mineral Beneficence in Developing Regions: Insights from the Cape’s Public Finance Policies, 1820-1910

Legacies of Loss: The Health Outcomes of Slaveholder Compensation in the British Cape Colony

AEHN Working Paper #53
When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset

AEHN Working Paper #47
The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries

AEHN Working Paper #42
Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier

AEHN Working Paper #30
“For the Public Benefit” Railways in the British Cape Colony

AEHN Working Paper #1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources