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- You have accessRestricted accessThe Two Quilengues and the Baculamento Taxation SystemColonial Dispossession, the Law, and the Plantationocene in Late Eighteenth-Century West Central AfricaEsteban SalasAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 50-73; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.50Esteban SalasEsteban Salas is Lecturer in African History in the Department of History and School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London. He holds a PhD in African history from the University of Notre Dame.
- You have accessRestricted accessThe African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century by Richard ReidAna Lucia AraujoAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 126-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.126Ana Lucia AraujoHoward University
- You have accessRestricted accessBritish Pragmatism or “Native” Inertia?Agricultural Practice in Ilorin Emirate of Northern Nigeria, 1900–1939Adeyinka O. BanwoAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 28-49; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.28Adeyinka O. BanwoAdeyinka O. Banwo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Westfield State University, Westfield, MA.
- You have accessRestricted accessMigrants’ Personal DevelopmentA Historical Focus on Nzema Migrants in Côte d’Ivoire, 1893–1995Martha Alibah and Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-MensahAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 101-125; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.101Martha AlibahMartha Alibah, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Diplomacy, University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana.Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-MensahEmmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah is Professor of History at the University of Ghana-Legon.
- You have accessRestricted accessLa société agraire du sultanat de Sennar dans les récits de voyages EuropéensGabriel BeauchampAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 74-100; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.74Gabriel BeauchampGabriel Beauchamp is a doctoral candidate at the University of Quebec at Montreal and a lecturer at the University of Quebec at Rimouski. His current field of research focuses on the impacts of non-European colonialism on African agriculture. Previously, he studied the effects of Egyptian colonialism on Soudanese agriculture in the Gezira region between 1821 and 1885. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis, a comparative study of agrarian practices and settler mentalities in Sierra Leone and Liberia between 1791 and 1899.
- You have accessRestricted accessOrganiser et réguler les marchés de captifs et de gomme arabique en SénégambieMonnaies, taxes, prix et fraudes (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle)Cheikh SeneAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 1-27; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.1Cheikh SeneCheikh Sene est postdoctorant au Getty Research Institute et affilié au Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche en histoire africaine (GIRHA) du Département d’histoire de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Ses recherches portent sur la traite négrière atlantique, la culture matérielle, les systèmes monétaires et fiscaux, ainsi que sur les dynamiques diplomatiques et coloniales en Afrique, sans oublier les héritages contemporains de l’esclavage. Il a été chercheur boursier à la Villa I Tatti (Harvard University, Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), à l’Institut historique allemand de Rome et au Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies.
- You have accessRestricted accessThe Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850 by Jody BenjaminEguono Lucia EdafiokaAfrican Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 129-131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.129Eguono Lucia EdafiokaVanderbilt University
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.