This article is the third in a series of historical reviews on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),
exploring why agricultural production and irrigation schemes are underperforming, and how …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been absent from recent debates about comparative
long-run growth owing to the lack of data on aggregate economic performance before 1950 …

This paper contributes to a growing literature on long-term trends and drivers of pre-
industrial inequality by providing new stylized facts on the evolution of income inequality in …

Refers to the export of enslaved Africans from the Atlantic coast of West Africa. The trade
began slowly during the 16th century after the arrival of Portuguese merchants on the coast …

There is a tight historical connection between endemic labour scarcity and the rise of
coercive labour market institutions in former African colonies. This paper explores how …

Limited knowledge of African historical inequality trajectories hampers our understanding of
inequality outcomes today and leads to a major omission in debates about global inequality …

This article reviews the literature on comparative real wages in history that has emerged
over the past two decades. Research has shown that unskilled men's real wages were …

The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have
been neglected in the literature on colonialism. We use new data on local governments, or …

This article uses Anglican marriage registers from colonial and post‐colonial Uganda to
investigate long‐term trends and determinants of intergenerational social mobility and …

The renaissance of African economic history in the past decade has opened up new
research avenues for studying the long‐term social and economic development of Africa. A …