Belated advertisement of my recently published paper on the history of wealth inequality in Kenya. A couple of years ago I went down a rabbit hole and started digitizing public notices of inheritances under probate in Kenya.

Join us on 31st January from 2-3pm GMT for a #PSDRN webinar exploring the role of concessionary companies in colonising Sub-Saharan Africa. Register here: shorturl.at/de8lX

⭐️NEW January 2025 issue of the #JournalofAfricanEconomies! Includes #openaccess work on 'Effect of Foreign Direct Investments on Industrialisation: The Case of China in Africa' Read it here: academic.oup.com/jae/issue/34/1 @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter Department of Economics, Oxford

📢 Calling all early-stage-researchers in Economic History! 📚 💡 A great chance to present your WP! Submit your paper or extended abstract for the YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar Spring 2025! 🌍 Deadline CFP: Jan 31 🗓️ e-mail to: [email protected]

📣New AEHN Article Summary by Felix Meier zu Selhausen Dácil Juif K. Frederick on: "The revival of African economic history in the 21st century: a bibliometric analysis", published in Industrial History Review aehnetwork.org/blog/the-reviv…

Just a reminder about the call for papers for this workshop!

Call for papers: “Frontiers of Comparative Development in Historical Perspective” Conference to be held at the University of Manchester, Nov 13-14. Keynote speaker: Barry Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley) Deadline to send us a proposal: September 22, 2025 Application link & details👇

📣The African Economic History Annual Meeting 2025 takes places at the National University of Lesotho, 30-31 October 2025. 🇱🇸🌄 Paper submissions and guidelines here: aehnetwork.org/textbook/

🛑🚨New article available online! "Age heaping based numeracy estimates in African regions, 1950–1999: New methodological advances and results" by Sarah Ferber & Jörg Baten tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢New Bibliometric Analysis of African Economic History by Felix Meier zu Selhausen Dácil Juif & Kate Frederick published in Industrial History Review on: "The Revival of African Economic History in the 21st Century" aehnetwork.org/blog/the-reviv…

Rebecca Simson Rebecca Simson (Oxford) is now presenting her paper “Wealth Inequality in Postcolonial Kenya (and South Africa)”. 👇

Early bird Conference registration closes on Monday 10 February. Register for the 2025 Annual Conference now via our website. ehs.org.uk/conference/

🗞️🇦🇴⛏️New Article Summary in Frontiers in African EH by Leo Dolan on "Forced to change: factor endowments, monopsony, and forced labour transitions in colonial Angola’s diamond mines" published in Economic History Review & Industrial History Review ⤵️ aehnetwork.org/blog/forced-to…

📰🌍New AEHN WP No. 79 by Rebecca Simson on: "Elite Persistence in Africa: Historical Perspectives, State of Knowledge and the Path Forward" aehnetwork.org/working-papers…

The 2025 African Economic History Meeting African Economic History Network (AEHN) will take place 30-31 October at the National University of Lesotho...how could Trump miss this? Call for Papers: aehnetwork.org/conference/ Deadline: 31 March 2025

My contribution to the African Economic History Network (AEHN) textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994: aehnetwork.org/textbook/afric…

Become the editor of Economic History of Developing Regions!

Now on Early View: 'Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco'. By Gabriel Koehler-Derrick. NYU Abu Dhabi onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

📰🌍New AEHN Working Paper No. 80 by Felix Meier zu Selhausen on: "German Colonialism in Africa and the Pacific, 1884-1914" 👇🏾 aehnetwork.org/working-papers…