In the 19th and 20th centuries, African economies experienced a significant structural
transformation from the slave trades to commercial agriculture. We analyze the long-run …

Transhumant pastoralism is an ancient natural resource management system traditionally
connecting ecosystems across north-south precipitation gradients in West Africa. As rural …

This study contributes to an expanding literature on historical African inequality, presenting
five social tables and income inequality estimates for Uganda between 1925 and 1965. I find …

Au XIXe siècle, la France s' est lancée dans la colonisation de pays entiers en Afrique et en
Asie. Quelles ont été les motivations et les méthodes de cette politique? Comment les …

This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more
historically oriented branch of the 'new'economic history of Africa. We survey four central …

Were colonial capitals islands of relative prosperity in West Africa, or did incomes in smaller
cities keep up with income levels in major cities like Dakar? Though recent work has shown …

From the late 19th into the mid-20th century millions of people migrated, seasonally or more
permanently, to regions where African farmers produced cocoa, groundnuts, coffee, cotton …

This article exploits a unique district-level dataset to investigate the relationship between
sugar cultivation, property rights systems and land distribution in colonial Java around the …

Abstract The Sokoto Caliphate of northern Nigeria was the workshop of West Africa in the
pre‐colonial nineteenth century, producing famous blue‐black cloth that reached many …

The world's cotton industry plays a significant role in the global economy, with cotton being
used in around 50% of all clothing, household items, and other products. However, the …