Decolonizing with Data

Johan Fourie and Nonso Obikili ()
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Nonso Obikili: Stellenbosch University

A chapter in Handbook of Cliometrics, 2024, pp 2635-2659 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Our understanding of Africa’s economic past – the causes and consequences of precolonial polities, the slave trade, state formation, the Scramble for Africa, European settlement, and independence – has improved markedly over the last two decades. Much of this is the result of the cliometric turn in African economic history, what some have called a “renaissance.” While acknowledging that cliometrics is not new to African history, this chapter examines the major recent contributions, noting their methodological advances and dividing them into four broad themes: persistence of deep traits, slavery, colonialism, and independence. We conclude with a brief bibliometric exercise, noting the lack of Africans working at the frontier of African cliometrics.

Keywords: Africa; History; Poverty; Reversal of fortunes; Sub-Saharan; Trade; Slavery; Colonialism; Missionaries; Independence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35583-7_69

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