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Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we exp

This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African p

This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporar

This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory

This book updates African maritime economic history to analyse the influence of seaports and seaborne trade, processes of urbanization and development, and the