Last week I attended the African Economic History Workshop at the London School of Economics. It was an excellent workshop, with 40 high-quality papers presented and more than 70 attendees. That is remarkable growth if you consider the previous African Economic History Workshop I attended, in Geneva in 2012, attracted around 10 papers and perhaps not more than 25 participants. The reasons for the renewed interest in African economic history is discussed in the introduction to a new special issue of the
A renaissance reconsidered
A renaissance reconsidered
A renaissance reconsidered
Last week I attended the African Economic History Workshop at the London School of Economics. It was an excellent workshop, with 40 high-quality papers presented and more than 70 attendees. That is remarkable growth if you consider the previous African Economic History Workshop I attended, in Geneva in 2012, attracted around 10 papers and perhaps not more than 25 participants. The reasons for the renewed interest in African economic history is discussed in the introduction to a new special issue of the