The Rise and Fall of African Indigenous Entrepreneurs’ Economic Solidarity in Lesotho, 1966–1975

Sean Maliehe is a postdoctoral researcher in the Human Economy Programme (HE) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in History (Economic History, with specialization in business and entrepreneurship). He works on Lesotho’s economic history, and, on money and mobile phones in South Africa and Lesotho. His recent publications include: “An Obscured Narrative in the Political Economy of Colonial Commerce in Lesotho, 1870–1966”, Historia 59, no. 2 (2014): 28–45; “Survival in post-mining communities in southern Africa: women and entrepreneurship in Lesotho”, in T. Salverda, A. Hollington, S. Klob, N. Scheinder and O. Tappe (eds), Hope for the Future: Efforts and ideas to improve the current economic predicament (2016), ; “Money and Markets for and against the People: The Rise and Fall of Basotho’s Economic Independence, 1830s–1930s,” in Keith Hart (ed.), Money in a Human Economy [Oxford: Berghanhn Human Economy Series, forthcoming (in press)].