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African Economic History Seminar
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The AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY SEMINAR meets on four Tuesdays in Lent Term, 5.15-6.45 pm, January-March 2024. The physical venue is the Audit Room of King’s College Cambridge. The meetings will also be on Zoom. Convenors: Prof. Gareth Austin (gma31@cam.ac.uk) and Dr. Bronwen Everill (Director of the Centre of African Studies). Please note: to receive the zoom link you need to subscribe to the seminar email list, which you can do at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/african-economic-history If you have a question about this list, please contact: Gareth Austin; Bronwen Everill. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 29 talks in the archive. ‘Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975’
‘Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What Can Names Tell Us?’
‘Consumer Experiences in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Trends and Developments, 1980 to 2023’
‘East African Grain Markets in Long-Run Perspective, c. 1900-2020’
‘Money, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building’This final meeting of the term will be on Zoom only
‘A Global Moment: The Circulation of East African Cowries across Land and Oceans (18th-19th Century)’This is a joint meeting with the History and Economics Seminar
‘Rural Capitalism and Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Trends and Transitions’
‘Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony’
'The History and Politics of Capital Markets in Post-independence Africa: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Kenya’
From Mortgage Holders to Slum Landlords: Compensated Emancipation and the Building of Cape Town, 1830s-1840sThis talk was postponed from 15 February to 26 April
Gains and Gainers on Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and Slave-Based Commodities: Towards a Global Approach
The Angolan Coffee Frontier, 1820-1920The presentation will be only 20 minutes, so discussion will be based largely on people having read the paper in advance. If you are coming to the seminar, please contact Gareth Austin (gma31@cam.ac.uk) for the paper.
African Merchants in Lagos: An Exploration in Entrepreneurial History
A Mapping of Resource-rich Precolonial Territories: How do Economic Resources Influence Voting Patterns in Postcolonial Ghana?
‘African Entrepreneurship: the Fetish of Personal Responsibility’
‘A History of Rubber Production in Africa’
'Measuring Historical Income Inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?’
'Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969’
‘From Oil Shocks to Structural Adjustment in Two African Beverage-Crop Economies: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1973-1983’
CANCELLED! Capital and colonialism: The return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969This seminar is college-based, so unaffected by the current industrial action.
The fiscal history of the British Cape Colony in comparative perspectives: Rethinking the South African exceptionalism, 1814-1910This seminar is college-based, so unaffected by the current industrial action.
Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s GhanaPlease note that, for this meeting only, we start at 17:30
Nigeria, British Economic Interests and the Sterling Guarantee Agreement
Ores for Development? Local Effects of Central African Copper Mining in Comparative Perspective (1910 to 2000)
Legacies of loss: The intergenerational outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony
Gender and the Colonial Labour Market in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1980At 18:30, the seminar will be followed by the launch of Dr Kufakurinani's book, 'Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890 to 1979', published by Brill (Leiden).
Struggles over slavery, struggles over power: Africa 1926-1946
The historical roots of entrepreneurial growth aspirations in Africa
Approaching a 2nd Edition of An Economic History of West Africa'
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