Papers on all aspects of African economic history are welcome, but preference will be given to those that pertain to the conference theme.

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. With few exceptions, quantitative investigations into Africa’s economic past were limited to the study of aggregated macro-economic variables – production, taxation and exports – published in colonial reports and available...

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post-independence periods have been the subject of substantial new research in recent years. Within the broader field of African economic history, the fiscal history of the continent has yielded insights into the capacity and aims of...

The IEHA welcomes sessions on all topics in economic history, history of economics, demographic history, social history, urban history, cultural history, gender studies, methodological aspects of historical research, and related fields, the WEHC 2012 theme is “Exploring the Roots of...

As the sixth ERSA Economic History event, the ERSA/FRESH Conference is part of a broader initiative to encourage new research on African topics, as well as other developing regions. In line with this, and in support of the Society’s journal, Economic History of Developing Regions, the topic...