Trade and markets are aspects of economic activities of man in every section of Igboland.
Ecological variations among different communities had enveloped societies to come …

Department of History, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria the oldest and most widespread
traditional form of transport, not only in Nigeria but also in many other parts of Africa, is …

reorganization or abandonment of old ones. Like An African Niche Economy, the essays in
this collection belong to a larger corpus of research and writing that both describes what …

Population maps of tropical Africa have been used as far back as the 1930s to show how
they could draw attention and curiosity to urban Kano. From the maps, it was obvious that …

While a system which looks like a system of political residency similar to that of modern day
ambassadorial plenipotentiaries had been developed by some kingdoms and empires that …

The article summarizes the evolution of the study of African economic history during the past
half century. It does so, not by attempting to assess the mountain of evidence that is now …

Thandika Mkandawire, the towering Malawian economist and public intellectual, went to be
with the ancestors on 27 March 2020. Professor Mkandawire liked to be called by his first …

The paper recalls the long history of colonial exclusion of African perspectives from
economic history. The struggle for the recognition of local perspectives is not only part of the …