Rémi Jedwab
AEHN Textbook Chapters
Introduction
What is Development?
Production Systems in Pre-colonial Africa
Commodity Trade and Development: Theory, History, Future
The Partitioning of Africa
African Demographics: How Many People are Too Many People?
The Rise of Education in Africa
From Cowries to Mobile Phones: African Monetary Systems since 1800
Growing Cities: Urbanization in Africa
National Movements in Colonial Africa
Who’s got the Power? The Electrification of Africa
Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse?
Poverty in Africa since Independence
Democracy and Development in Africa since 1960s
The Slave Trades out of Africa
AEHN Working Papers
AEHN Blog Articles
The launch of Frontiers in African Economic History
Interview: Ewout Frankema
Ewout Frankema and Michiel de Haas - 10 April 2016Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Social Capital
Boris Gershman - 21 April 2016How Colonial Railroads defined Africa’s Economic Geography
Interview: Patrick Manning
Patrick Manning and Kate Frederick - 21 June 2016Monetary practices and currency transitions in early colonial Uganda
Karin Pallaver - 18 July 2016Doing Economic History in Africa: experiences from the archives in Uganda
Michiel de Haas and Felix Meier zu Selhausen - 24 August 2016The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa
Nonso Obikili - 12 September 2016Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Vellore Arthi and James Fenske - 26 September 2016Was the wage burden too heavy? Profits and wages on European settler farms
Jutta Bolt and Erik Green - 17 October 2016The data revolution in African Economic History
Johan Fourie - 7 November 2016Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda’s smallholders thrive?
Michiel de Haas - 21 November 2016Interview: Paul Lovejoy
Paul E. Lovejoy and Felix Meier zu Selhausen - 14 December 2016From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt
Dacil Juif and Ewout Frankema - 2 February 2017Weather Shocks and Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial Tropical Africa: Did Export Crops Alleviate Social Distress?
Kostadis J. Papaioannou and Michiel de Haas - 8 March 2017Long-term trends in economic inequality: Lessons from colonial Botswana 1921–1974
Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom - 29 March 2017From the Archives: experiences of doing historical demography in Northern Ghana
Edward Morgan - 8 May 2017Slave ship provisioning in the long 18th century. A boost to West African commercial agriculture?
Angus Dalrymple-Smith and Ewout Frankema - 30 May 2017European Trade, Colonialism, and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770-1900
Gabriele Cappelli and Jörg Baten - 18 June 2017Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s–1970s)
Kleoniki Alexopoulou and Dacil Juif - 22 September 2017Colonialism or Supersanctions: Sovereignty and Debt in West Africa, 1871-1914
Leigh Gardner - 19 October 2017Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Uganda, 1895-2011
Indian Textiles and Gum Arabic in the Lower Senegal River: Global Significance of Local Trade and Consumers in the Early Nineteenth Century
Kazuo Kobayashi - 29 January 2018Interview: Emmanuel Akyeampong
Emmanuel Akyeampong and Michiel de Haas - 12 February 2018The Territorial Expansion of the Colonial State: Evidence from German East Africa 1890–1909
Trickle-down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970)
‘Changing Grounds’. The Development of Coffee Production in the Lake Kivu Region (1918-1960/62)
Sven Van Melkebeke - 28 May 2018Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Niger’s 1986 Meningitis Epidemic
Belinda Archibong and Francis Annan - 18 June 2018An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835–1885
‘Hail the Census Night’: Trust and Political Imagination in the 1960 Population Census of Ghana
Gerardo Serra - 27 August 2018African Agricultural Productivity and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Senegambia in the Nineteenth Century
Klas Rönnbäck and Dimitrios Theodoridis - 21 September 2018Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor
Marlous van Waijenburg - 21 October 2018Africa Rising in Economic History
Felix Meier zu Selhausen - 19 November 2018LEAP Lecture by A.G. Hopkins: “50 Years of African Economic History”
Antony G. Hopkins - 18 December 2018The Long-Term Effects of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from Trade Policies in Colonial French Africa
Federico Tadei - 30 January 2019Africa’s Clientelist Budget Policies Revisited: Public Expenditure and Employment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960–2010
Rebecca Simson - 26 February 2019Family Planning and Fertility in South Africa Under Apartheid
Johannes Norling - 29 March 2019The Land–Labour Hypothesis in a Settler Economy: Wealth, Labour and Household Composition on the South African Frontier
Jeanne Cilliers and Erik Green - 26 April 2019Labour Control and the Establishment of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Colonial Kenya, c. 1920-45
Maria Fibaek and Erik Green - 3 June 2019Mining, Paternalism and the Spread of Education in the Congo since 1920
Dacil Juif - 29 June 2019From Market to Exchange: Early Regulation and Social Organisation on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1887-1892
Mariusz Lukasiewicz - 22 July 2019French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: Evidence from the Partition of Cameroon
Yannick Dupraz - 31 August 2019The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970
Factor Endowments on the ‘Frontier’: Algerian Settler Agriculture at the Beginning of the 1900
Laura Maravall - 31 October 2019Interethnic and Interfaith Marriages in Sub-Saharan Africa
Juliette Crespin-Boucaud - 21 November 2019Interview: Antony Hopkins
Antony G. Hopkins, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Kate Frederick, Michiel de Haas and Rebecca Simson - 30 January 2020Writing Economic History with the Archives Nationales du Sénégal
Tom Westland - 17 February 2020Long-Run Effects of Forced Resettlement: Evidence from Apartheid South Africa
Martin Abel - 3 March 2020COVID-19 in Africa: Navigating Short- and Long-term Strategies
Marlous van Waijenburg and Ewout Frankema - 1 May 2020Covid-19 and African History: Editor’s Introduction to the Virtual JAH Special Issue “Epidemics and Public Health”
Shane Doyle - 16 May 2020Labour market formation in post-slavery Africa: Ruanda-Urundi migrants and Buganda’s low wage economy
Michiel de Haas - 1 June 2020The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie: Public Sector Employees and Economic Privilege in Postcolonial Kenya and Tanzania
Rebecca Simson - 22 June 2020