The Colonial Currency Transition: A View from East Africa

Karin Pallaver

doi:10.3368/aeh.53.1.166

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The Colonial Currency Transition

A View from East Africa

Karin Pallaver

African Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 166-182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.166

Karin Pallaver

Karin 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).

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