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.

The world’s poorest continent should embrace its least fashionable idea econ.st/4htPU5A

🗞️🇦🇴⛏️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…

🌍CALL FOR PAPERS🌍 18th Annual Meeting of the AEHN 2025 📍: National University of Lesotho 🇱🇸 📅: 30-31 October 2025 📰: Submission deadline: 31 March 2025 💰: Funding opportunities for Africa-based scholars ⁉️Details: aehnetwork.org/conference/

Nigeria: mosques & churches Data: GRID3 & Africapolis

Papers that make you go wow

Are African elites longstanding, or nouveau riche? In a new African Economic History Network (AEHN) working paper I review some of the debates about- and channels through which elites are reproduced and renewed, in the context of African history. aehnetwork.org/working-papers…

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Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

"Ghanaians realised the urgency of the crisis when the water company cut its water supply by 75%, saying it couldn’t handle the levels of chemicals being spewed by gold mining. #Ghana may have to start importing water if the situation doesn’t improve" ft.com/content/57b714…

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

🚨We are recruiting! If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you! 🎯 Fully funded incl. social security 🎯 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History 🎯 Friendly and supportive environment web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Hi folks! Will we see you in Copenhagen this September? Call for ASREC conference is out! Preceded by grad student workshop. Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion. Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org

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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…

My chapter on German Colonialism, prepared for the forthcoming "Routledge Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism" (eds. Frankema & Tirthankar Roy ) as AEHN WP.

🔔This Thursday at 5pm CET, don’t miss our next #econhist session led by @gjmbrown (Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past): The Persistent Effects of Bible Translations in Africa 📝With Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Utrecht University) as chair — great to have him join us! 🚀See you online!

My new book--A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda--publishes today! Based on newly-available government archives, the book shows why and how Amin's regime commanded popular support. It can be bought on paper or as an e-book here: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…

📢 Excited to share this at the #WEHC 2025! #echist CFP for a special issue at Industrial History Review "New Perspectives on Middle Eastern Economic History" deadline Sept. 21. Guest editors Onur Yükçü, Mohamed Saleh, C. Artunç. Info: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hist…