Rémi Jedwab
AEHN Textbook Chapters
Introduction
What is Development?
Production Systems in Pre-colonial Africa
Slavery and Slave Trade in West Africa, 1450-1930
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
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 2019