African Economic History Seminar


2019-01-29 17:00: Approaching a 2nd Edition of An Economic History of West Africa' (A. G. Hopkins, Cambridge)

2019-02-12 17:00: The historical roots of entrepreneurial growth aspirations in Africa (Dr Stephanie Decker (Aston University))

2019-02-26 17:00: Struggles over slavery, struggles over power: Africa 1926-1946 (Dr Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham))

2019-03-12 17:00: Gender and the Colonial Labour Market in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1980 (Dr Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe))

2019-06-07 17:00: Legacies of loss: The intergenerational outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony (Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch))

2020-01-21 17:00: Ores for Development? Local Effects of Central African Copper Mining in Comparative Perspective (1910 to 2000) (Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid))

2020-02-04 17:00: Nigeria, British Economic Interests and the Sterling Guarantee Agreement (Chibuike Uche, Leiden University)

2020-02-18 17:30: Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s Ghana  (Gerardo Serra (University of Manchester))

2020-02-25 17:00: The fiscal history of the British Cape Colony in comparative perspectives: Rethinking the South African exceptionalism, 1814-1910 (Abel Gwaindepi (Lund University))

2020-03-10 17:00: CANCELLED! Capital and colonialism: The return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969 (Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg University))

2021-01-26 17:00: ‘From Oil Shocks to Structural Adjustment in Two African Beverage-Crop Economies: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1973-1983’ (Gareth Austin, King's College, Cambridge)

2021-02-02 17:00: 'Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969’ (Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg))

2021-02-16 17:00: 'Measuring Historical Income Inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?’ (Ellen Hillbom (Lund) and Jutta Bolt (Lund), Michiel de Haas (Wageningen) and Frederico Tadei (Barcelona),)

2021-03-02 17:00: ‘A History of Rubber Production in Africa’ (Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London))

2021-03-16 17:00: ‘African Entrepreneurship: the Fetish of Personal Responsibility’ (Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt University, Nashville))

2022-01-18 17:00: A Mapping of Resource-rich Precolonial Territories: How do Economic Resources Influence Voting Patterns in Postcolonial Ghana? (George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana)

2022-02-01 17:00: African Merchants in Lagos: An Exploration in Entrepreneurial History (A. G. Hopkins (University of Cambridge))

2022-03-08 17:00: The Angolan Coffee Frontier, 1820-1920 (Jelmer Vos (University of Glasgow))

2022-03-15 17:00: Gains and Gainers on Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and Slave-Based Commodities: Towards a Global Approach (Filipa Ribiero da Silva (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam))

2022-04-26 17:00: From Mortgage Holders to Slum Landlords: Compensated Emancipation and the Building of Cape Town, 1830s-1840s (Kate Ekama (Stellebosch University, South Africa))

2023-01-24 17:15: 'The History and Politics of Capital Markets in Post-independence Africa: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Kenya’ (Mariusz Lukasiewicz (University of Leipzig))

2023-02-07 17:15: ‘Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony’ (Igor Martins (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-21 17:15: ‘Rural Capitalism and Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Trends and Transitions’	 (Prince Young Aboagye (Lund University))

2023-03-07 17:15: ‘A Global Moment: The Circulation of East African Cowries across Land and Oceans (18th-19th Century)’ (Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna) )

2023-03-14 17:15: ‘Money, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building’ (Tinashe Nyamunda (University of Pretoria))

2024-01-16 17:15: ‘East African Grain Markets in Long-Run Perspective, c. 1900-2020’  (Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University))

2024-02-13 17:15: ‘Consumer Experiences in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Trends and Developments, 1980 to 2023’ (Eric Makombe (University of Zimbabwe))

2024-02-27 17:15: ‘Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What Can Names Tell Us?’ (Rebecca Simson (Oxford/London School of Economics))

2024-03-12 17:15: ‘Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975’ (Hélder Carvalhal (University of Manchester))