Attending @asanewsonline.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta? Keep an eye out for AEH Editor and 2023 ASA Best Book Prize winner Mariana Candido. Inquire about submitting the work you'll be presenting to AEH and organising special issues with us! We hope to see you there!

Read Leigh Gardner's article, "Trade and Money in British West Africa" a monetary history of the seasonal demand for currency and how multiple currencies existed in West Africa beyond the establishment of colonial rule and colonial currencies.
The article appears in our #OpenAccess issue 53.1.

It was an exciting time at the 18th African Economic History Network Annual Meeting in Maseru, Lesotho📷 with the theme "Disruptions and Resilience in African Economic Transformations." The conference attracted over a hundred scholars of African Economic History.

We're gearing up for the 18th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network in Maseru🇱🇸 from 30-31st Oct next week! Our editorial assistant Rene Odanga (LEFT) will be there looking forward to meeting with scholars of African Economic History. Reach out to him about submitting work to AEH!

Read the article "Crises and Adaptation" by Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju of The University of Lagos. It studies the transition to colonial currencies and how various actors responded and adapted in early 20th Century Nigeria. It is from our latest #OpenAccess issue 53.1.

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We are proud to spotlight "Crossing Borders, Counting Coins" by Domenico Cristofaro of @unibo.it and Seiji Nakao of Kyoto University from our #OpenAccess issue 53.1. It focusses on the consequences of colonial fiscal policies on cross-border African monetary practices.

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CFP: AEH welcomes submissions in English, French and Portuguese from all disciplines that relate to the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present. AEH is also interested in proposals for thematic special issues.

Read our guest editor Toyomu Masaki @toyomumasaki.bsky.social article, "The French Invasion of the Upper Senegal River and Payment Issues, 1880-1900" on colonial money supplies in 19th Century West Africa. Issue 53.1 is #OpenAccess thanks to the support of Dr. Masaki and Kanazawa University

We are pleased to announce our new Special Issue 53.1 which is #OpenAccess thanks to support from Kanazawa University Our guest editors @gareth-austin.bsky.social and @toyomumasaki.bsky.social on Currency Transitions in West Africa. We will be highlighting articles from it in the coming days!

Our first issue of 2024 is out now!

muse.jhu.edu/issue/52590

Special Issue - 'Economic Sovereignty in South Africa' edited by Ndumiso Dladla and @anjuliwebster.bsky.social

African Economic History publishes scholarly essays in English, French, and Portuguese on the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present.

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African Economic History 51.2 is out now via Project Muse!

muse.jhu.edu/issue/51777

Keep an eye out for profiles of the exciting authors and new research on topics from African agriculture and road infrastructures to tobacco and tax in the coming weeks!