Table of Contents
June 01, 2025; Volume 53,Issue 1
Currency Transition in West Africa: From Commodity to Colonial Currencies
Adjepong-boateng, Kofi
- Open AccessWar, Finance, and Monetary Reform in Ashanti, 1807–1935Kofi Adjepong-BoatengAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 21-59; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.21Kofi Adjepong-BoatengKofi Adjepong-Boateng is the Associate Director, Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge. He is a Trustee of the United Kingdom’s Royal Economic Society and a past head of the Policy Committee, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.
Austin, Gareth
- Open AccessFrom Commodity to Colonial Currencies in West AfricaIntroductionGareth AustinAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 1-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.1Gareth AustinGareth Austin , Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge.
Cristofaro, Domenico
- Open AccessCrossing Borders, Counting CoinsTaxation and Multiple Currencies at the Haute Volta/Gold Coast Border in the Early Twentieth CenturyDomenico Cristofaro and Seiji NakaoAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 89-118; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.89Domenico CristofaroDomenico Cristofaro is a research fellow and adjunct lecturer at the University of Bologna. He is a historian of Africa with an anthropological background. His interests encompass urban history, economic history, and the relationship between African planning, political changes, currencies, and commercial and infrastructural transitions. He has published with international publishers and journals such as the International Journal of African Historical Studies and The Journal of African History.Seiji NakaoSeiji Nakao is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. He has conducted his research in Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and France and received his PhD (Anthropology) from Nanzan University in 2017. He won the 33rd Japan Association for African Studies Research Award for his book, Modernities of the Interior West Africa: Historical Anthropology of State and Stateless Societies (2020, Fukyosha, in Japanese) in 2021.
Gardner, Leigh A.
- Open AccessTrade and Money in British West Africa, 1912–1970Evidence from Seasonal CyclesLeigh A. GardnerAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 144-165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.144Leigh A. GardnerLeigh A. Gardner is a Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and a Research Associate at Stellenbosch University. Her work focuses on Africa’s interactions with the global economy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways these have shaped state capacity and long-run development in the region.
Masaki, Toyomu
- Open AccessThe French Invasion of the Upper Senegal River and Payment Issues, 1880–1900Currency Transitions and the Role of the TreasuryToyomu MasakiAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 60-88; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.60Toyomu MasakiToyomu Masaki is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Kanazawa University in Japan. Her recent research interests include money and financial issues in French West Africa, considering colonial history.
Nakao, Seiji
- Open AccessCrossing Borders, Counting CoinsTaxation and Multiple Currencies at the Haute Volta/Gold Coast Border in the Early Twentieth CenturyDomenico Cristofaro and Seiji NakaoAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 89-118; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.89Domenico CristofaroDomenico Cristofaro is a research fellow and adjunct lecturer at the University of Bologna. He is a historian of Africa with an anthropological background. His interests encompass urban history, economic history, and the relationship between African planning, political changes, currencies, and commercial and infrastructural transitions. He has published with international publishers and journals such as the International Journal of African Historical Studies and The Journal of African History.Seiji NakaoSeiji Nakao is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. He has conducted his research in Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and France and received his PhD (Anthropology) from Nanzan University in 2017. He won the 33rd Japan Association for African Studies Research Award for his book, Modernities of the Interior West Africa: Historical Anthropology of State and Stateless Societies (2020, Fukyosha, in Japanese) in 2021.
Olukoju, Ayodeji
- Open AccessCrises and AdaptationThe Colonial Currency System in Lagos and Its Hinterland, ca. 1900–1930Ayodeji OlukojuAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 119-143; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.119Ayodeji OlukojuAyodeji Olukoju is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was DAAD Guest Professor at Bayreuth University (2022) and STIAS Fellow at Stellenbosch University (2024). A member of the advisory board of Journal of Global History, his recent publications include Politics, Economy and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (London, 2023, co-edited with Tokunbo Ayoola), and articles in Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte (2024) and The International History Review (2025).
Pallaver, Karin
- Open AccessThe Colonial Currency TransitionA View from East AfricaKarin PallaverAfrican Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 166-182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.166Karin PallaverKarin Pallaver is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, where she teaches Modern African History and Indian Ocean History. She has recently edited the volume Monetary Transitions. Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies (Palgrave 2022).
