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Frontiers in African Economic History

Frontiers in African Economic History – AEHN’s blog – diffuses research-based content and promotes discussion concerning the study of long-term African development. The blog provides authors a platform to disseminate easily accessible summaries (700 words) of their recently published research (articles, book chapters, book reviews, theses), publishes interviews with key scholars in the field, and discusses relevant developments. We welcome blog contributions and suggestions. Please contact the editors (Rebecca Simson, Jeanne Cilliers and Michael Chanda Chiseni) to discuss possible posts.

Interview: Ewout Frankema

Ewout Frankema and Michiel de Haas - 10 April 2016

Ewout, you were trained as a historian and economist and wrote your PhD thesis on inequality in Latin America. What made you invest so much of your professional energy in African economic history? A better understanding of the nature and historical origins of global...
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The launch of Frontiers in African Economic History

Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Michiel de Haas and Kate Frederick - 24 February 2016

We are delighted to launch the AEHN’s new blog, Frontiers in African Economic History. The editorial team consists of Michiel de Haas, Kate Frederick (both Wageningen University) and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (University of Southern Denmark & University of Sussex). The aim of this...
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Rebecca Simson

Rebecca is a Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. Her research explores social and economic processes of change in postcolonial Africa, with a focus on social mobility, social stratification and elite formation since independence. Rebecca has a PhD in economic history from the London… Read more

Jeanne Cilliers

Jeanne Cilliers is an associate professor at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and historical demography, with a focus on Africa and aims to understand the interplay between population dynamics and socioeconomic development in former colonial societies. Her expertise is… Read more

Michael Chanda Chiseni

Michael Chanda Chiseni is a post-doctoral fellow at Gothenburg University’s Political Science Department. His research interests lie at the intersections of long-term human and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. His current work at Gothenburg University focusses on understanding the politics of aid distribution and the impact thereof on poverty in… Read more

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