Here are the links to my recently published EHR paper and AEHN blog on forced labour in colonial Africa:

Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra

With all the recent chatter about the Benguela Railway, including in this Economist article, I thought I’d share an extract about its original construction which reads like something out of a Mad Max movie. Source: Adventures in Africa by J.B. Thornhill (1915)
www.economist.com/middle-east-...