As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of
history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on …

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the
economic history of the huge area conventionally known as West Africa. The book ranges …

This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an
investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and …

The purpose of this article is to promote the revival of African economic history. Poverty, the
most pressing issue confronting the continent, has received world-wide publicity in recent …

Abstract Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson have dramatically challenged the tendency of
economists to confine their empirical search for the causes of economic growth to the recent …

Africa in World History is the first comprehensive survey to illustrate how Africans have
influenced regions beyond their continent's borders, how they have been influenced from …

'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign Affairs Not so long
ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned …

The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually
all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the slave trade, mass migrations …

Impasse, crisis, decline—a grim vocabulary has come to dominate discourse on African
development. From the hope and optimism that prevailed in the 1960s to the unease and …

The recent surge in computing power and access to data-processing software and online
resources enables historians to capture historical statistics on a much larger scale than …