Crossing Borders, Counting Coins: Taxation and Multiple Currencies at the Haute Volta/Gold Coast Border in the Early Twentieth Century

Domenico Cristofaro; Seiji Nakao

doi:10.3368/aeh.53.1.89

Article Information

vol. 53 no. 1 89-118

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.89

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African Economic History

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0145-2258

Online ISSN

2163-9108

History

Published online July 8, 2025.

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Domenico Cristofaro

Domenico Cristofaro (domenico.cristofaro2{at}unibo.it) 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 Nakao

Seiji Nakao (nakao.seiji.2i{at}kyoto-u.ac.jp) 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.

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