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AEH 2025

The LSE-Cambridge African Economic History Workshop

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11 June 2025, SAL B 07, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE

This annual workshop has rotated between Cambridge and LSE since 2019, offering a friendly, informal venue for graduate students and junior scholars to present their work and build networks with more senior scholars. 

Workshop Programme

10.00am - Coffee

10.15am-12.0pm - 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

Jutta Bolt (Groningen) Colonialism and the Mapping of the African State: Historical Origins and Persistence of Local Administrative Boundaries

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 Postcolonlial African Growth Rates

Rebecca Simson (Oxford) Africa's Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Main Event or Sideshow?

5.20-6.30pm - Roundtable discussion: the future of the annual workshop

7.00pm - Dinner (invitation only)