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People worry a lot about looming mineral shortages but this is a solvable problem as it has been solved in the past. In this article in Time, I look back at the response to previous fears of shortages: time.com/7202047/cold...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

With all the recent chatter about the Benguela Railway, including in this Economist article, I thought I’d share an extract about its original construction which reads like something out of a Mad Max movie. Source: Adventures in Africa by J.B. Thornhill (1915) www.economist.com/middle-east-...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Nice! I would have expected much greater trade between Ethiopia and its neighbor, particularly Kenya.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

I have a little paper out in the latest issue of the Industrial History Review (a special issue on new frontiers in African economic history) that looks at spatial variation in living standards and purchasing power in French West Africa around 1950. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments