When the Never-Ending Cruise Stopped Imagine being told you could cruise around the world indefinitely.The Never-Ending Cruise.With Villa ownership on...

In this paper we study 500 years of African economic history using traveller accounts. Applying modern day computational linguistic techniques...

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During the colonial period in Mozambique, forced wage labor (FWL) was used extensively to ensure a consistent supply of male...

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Although there are usually more widows in the world than widowers, little is known about the economic impact of the...

Ten years have passed since the publication of the last special issue on African economic history proclaiming the “renaissance” of...

Netflix’s the New Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) remains one of the most infamous studies in the...

Colonial concession companies like Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) relied heavily on coercive labour systems to manage the high...

This research explores how South Sudan’s current looming crisis is rooted in a century-long history of coercive and predatory revenue-raising...