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- You have accessRestricted accessBack MatterAfrican Economic History, December 2017, 45 (1) 0450001_2;
- You have accessRestricted accessGender, Spirituality, and Economic Change in Rural GambiaAgricultural Production in the Lower Gambia Region, c. 1830s–1940sASSAN SARRAfrican Economic History, December 2017, 45 (2) 1-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.2.1ASSAN SARRAssan Sarr () is an assistant professor of History at Ohio University. He is the author of Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin: The Politics of Land Control, 1790–1940, with the University of Rochester Press. Sarr has also published articles with the Mande Studies and African Studies Review as well as book reviews.
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- You have accessRestricted accessIndian Textiles and Gum Arabic in the Lower Senegal RiverGlobal Significance of Local Trade and Consumers in the Early Nineteenth CenturyKAZUO KOBAYASHIAfrican Economic History, December 2017, 45 (2) 27-53; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.2.27KAZUO KOBAYASHIKazuo Kobayashi is a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016. He is studying Indian cotton textiles in precolonial West Africa and his particular areas of interest are the history of early modern globalization, West African economic history and the history of Indian cotton textiles.
- You have accessRestricted accessVirtual AbolitionThe Economic Lattice of Luwalo Forced Labor in the Uganda ProtectorateOPOLOT OKIAAfrican Economic History, December 2017, 45 (2) 54-84; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.2.54OPOLOT OKIAOpolot Okia is an Associate Professor of African History at Wright State University and was a Fulbright Scholar at Makerere University in Uganda for the 2016–17 academic year. His research covers forced labor in British East Africa. He has published several articles and a book, Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya: The Legitimization of Coercion, 1912–1930 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
- You have accessRestricted accessSecondary Industry and Settler ColonialismSouthern Rhodesia before and after the Unilateral Declaration of IndependenceIAN PHIMISTER and VICTOR GWANDEAfrican Economic History, December 2017, 45 (2) 85-112; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.2.85IAN PHIMISTERIan Phimister is Senior University Research Professor and Head of the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa. An economic historian who has written extensively on Central and Southern African topics, as well as on patterns of British overseas investment, he has held positions at the Universities of Zambia, Cape Town, Oxford, and Sheffield.VICTOR GWANDEVictor Gwande is currently a PhD Candidate in Africa Studies at the International Studies Group, Center for Africa Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa. He also holds a BA Honours in Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe and an MA in Africa Studies from the University of the Free State. He has research interests in economic and business history, youth, democracy and governance. He has also published in regional journals.
- You have accessRestricted accessElectricity Access Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1950–2000HANAAN MARWAHAfrican Economic History, December 2017, 45 (2) 113-144; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.2.113HANAAN MARWAHHanaan Marwah is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and has worked in the African electricity sector for both public and private sector institutions. Her work appears in publications including the Economic History Review (2014) and Marc Badia-Miró, Vincente Pinilla, and Henry Willebald (eds.), Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History (2015). She holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.
- You have accessRestricted accessReinterpreting Labor Migration as Initiation Rite“Ghana Boys” and European Clothing in Dogon Country (Mali), 1920–1960ISAIE DOUGNONAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 73-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.73ISAIE DOUGNONIsaie Dougnon is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bamako, Mali. From 1998 to 2003, Professor Dougnon conducted research on migration and labour from Dogon Country Mali to the Office du Niger and to Ghana. His book ‘Travail de Blanc’ ‘Travail de Noir’: la migration des paysans dogons vers l’Office du Niger et au Ghana 1910–1980 was published in 2007 by Karthala. He has published numerous articles and held Humboldt and Fulbright fellowships. He is completing a second book manuscript, tentatively titled Lifecycle, Rites and Career in Modern Work.
- You have accessRestricted accessPanyaEconomies of Deception and the Discontinuities of Indentured Labour Recruitment and the Slave Trade, Nigeria and Fernando Pó, 1890s–1940sENRIQUE MARTINOAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 91-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.91ENRIQUE MARTINOEnrique Martino () received his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2016. His published articles include “Dash-Peonage: The Contradictions of Debt Bondage on the Colonial Plantations of Fernando Pó,” in Africa; “Clandestine Recruitment Networks in the Bight of Biafra,” in International Review of Social History; and “Open Sourcing the Colonial Archive,” in History in Africa.
- You have accessRestricted accessMigration and Forced Labor in the Social Imaginary of Southern Mozambique, 1920–1964HÉCTOR GUERRA HERNANDEZAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 130-151; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.130HÉCTOR GUERRA HERNANDEZHector Guerra Hernandez () has been a Professor of African History at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) since August 2012. He earned his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2011 from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), after earning a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary History and Sociology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin in Germany in 2005. He has experience in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology and History, and conducts research into postcolonialism, postsocialism, ideology and culture, international migration and social conflicts. He spent many years conducting research into Latin American migration and social conflict in European contexts, before taking up his current research projects into the history and politics of southern Africa, with a particular focus on Mozambique.