10.00am - Coffee
10.15am-12.00pm - Session 1
Gareth Austin (Cambridge) Dynamics of Cocoa Cultivation in Ghana, 1891-2010
Olutayo Adesina (Ibadan/Manchester) Cattle Politics, Colonialism, and the Political Economy of Everyday Life in Nigeria since 1900
Laura Montenegro (LSE) Forging Apartheid: Market Access and the Rise of Afrikaner National Identity in Colonial South Africa
12.00-12.45pm - Lunch
12.45-3.30pm - Session 2
Jeremy Ricketts-Hagan (Oxford) What Drove the Expansion of the Asante Empire? Assessing the Role of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Political Development in African State-Building
Rebecca Simson (Oxford) Africa's Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Main Event or Sideshow?
Laura Channing (Durham) Colonial Taxation and Local Government in British West Africa
3.30-4.00pm - Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.45pm - Session 3
Matt Benson (LSE) Fiscal Fragmentation and Civic Resistence in Sudan: Struggles Over State Revenues, 1953-2024
Molly Kiniry (Cambridge) Volatility and Non-Volatility in Postcolonial African Growth Rates
Leigh Gardner (LSE) Colonialism and the Mapping of the African State: Historical Origins and Persistence of Local Administrative Boundaries
5.45-6.30pm - Roundtable discussion: the future of the annual workshop
7.00pm - Dinner (invitation only)