Measuring the Revival of African Economic History Research on the economic history of Africa has experienced an unprecedented surge since the turn of the 21st century. This is not surprising given the...
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Understanding widowhood is an important part of understanding society; the lives of widows offer insights into how households and families are organized and what responses there are to those in need. The...
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During the colonial period, European powers established various coercive economic institutions in their African territories. These included monopolies and monopsonies on trade, price controls, taxation, and forced labour. It is widely recognized...
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Previous research on the changing property rights associated with colonialism has focused on three groups of agents: colonial governments, indigenous populations, and settlers. The role of corporations in redefining property rights during...
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Over the past two decades, African Economic History research has surged. Many studies focus on the colonial period when bureaucratic apparatuses became developed enough to produce government documents. The precolonial period, in...
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Measuring elite persistence Rising inequality in the latter part of the 20th century has brought questions of class and social mobility solidly back onto the academic research agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa remains on...
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Zimbabwe’s industrial development has been well-studied with scholars showing opportunistic and exogenous factors such as the Great Depression, the outbreak of the Second World War, the establishment of the Central African Federation...
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Today, Africa is characterized by substantial variation in within-country income inequality covering a spectrum from relatively equal economies in West and North Africa to highly unequal countries in Central, Eastern, and especially...
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Colonial administrations introduced various social infrastructure in Africa. Scholars have studied their effects on education (Brown, 2000), and health care (Lasker, 1977; Patterson, 1981; Huillery, 2009; Lowes & Montero, 2021). A recent...
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Why slavery was practised in certain US regions and not in others and why specific groups of Africans were transported in such great numbers to the New World is both a historically...
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