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Writing Economic History with the Archives Nationales du Sénégal
Tom Westland - February 17, 2020 in Frontiers in African Economic History

The richness and professionalism of the Senegalese national archives has long been acknowledged by historians of West Africa. Unlike several other countries in West Africa, where political upheaval or civil war have...
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From the Archives: experiences of doing historical demography in Northern Ghana
Edward Morgan - May 8, 2017 in Frontiers in African Economic History

African historical demography has received comparatively little attention with respect to the wider field of historical demography. In 1977, the Centre for African Studies at the University of Edinburgh devoted its annual...
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Doing Economic History in Africa: experiences from the archives in Uganda
Michiel de Haas and Felix Meier zu Selhausen - August 24, 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

The field of African Economic History is flourishing. The rising number of participants at the annual meeting of the AEHN, the increasing flow of articles in mainstream economic history journals and thriving...
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