Economist . Historian . Researching African financial and economic history @StellenboschUni. Principal Researcher: @TimeTravelData and @Front_Finance
Cape Town & Stellenbosch
Joined April 2009
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📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. @ellliottt @phinifa @essobecker
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⭐ Thanks to the African Economic History Network and Sapienza University of Rome for inviting our LEAP team to #AEHN2024! Engaging with top academics on Africa's rich economic history was a fantastic experience. ⭐
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@MoradiAlexander presenting research from the @TimeTravelData project titled “Narratives from European-African Encounters” at AEHN 2024
#AEHN #LEAP
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@KarinPallaver and @coetzeelauren presenting the preliminary results of our project (with @MoradiAlexander @Edkerby and @UbuntR314) @AfEconHis meeting in Rome.
"Currency areas in modern precolonial Africa: New insights from traveller accounts"
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Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my supervisors @JohanFourieZA and @Edkerby, committee, colleagues @LEAP_SU, friends, and family for their support. What a great learning experience – I wouldn't trade it for anything. Excited for what lies ahead.
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Now on Early View:
'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?'
By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza
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@MoradiAlexander, @UbuntR314 and @edkerby are really having fun working on this project.
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Looking back at LEAP's Frontiers of Finance this Friday:
Maphosa, L. M., Ehlers, A., Fourie, J., & Kerby, E. M. (2021). The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892–1902. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36(2), 149–174. doi.org/10.1080/20780389.202…
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Trending in #History:
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1) UN Tour Guides, Gender & Public Diplomacy, 1952–77 (@shafrdh)
2) The Fall of Constantinople & the New Political Dynamic in the Holy Roman Empire, 1453–67
3) Competitiveness, Civilizationism & the Anglosphere (@MIHJournal)
4) African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? (@echistsocreview)
5) The Salvation Army, Eberhard Arnold & the Bruderhof
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Come see @alexmoradi present a new paper on “Narratives from European-African Encounters (1400 - 1900)” at the @EcHistSoc. A 🧵 on this fascinating, ground-breaking research.
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For comparison, how about an Econ textbook? Even @DAcemogluMIT has highs and lows to his micro textbook. Its starts wells and ends badly. The dismal science hits a low with market failure homework. – at Avio, Trentino-Alto Adige
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Can narrative arcs detect good stories from factual accounts? Exhibit 1: Adams (top) never travelled, while Livingstone (bottom) traversed the continent. Things were really bumpy for Livingstone with highs and lows of exploration in 1850. Adams had it too easy. – at Avio, Trentino-Alto Adige
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The Time Travellers are at the 2nd Bolzano Historical Economics Workshop @unibz_news, presenting Rimorfacta. Are Travellers to Africa (1500 - 1900) writing about facts or making up fiction? – at Avio, Trentino-Alto Adige
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Rimorfacta = systematic #data from travellers in Africa (1500 - 1900). This data can answer important #economics questions about precolonial #agriculture, #slavetrade, gunpowder & violence, and #technology. @MoradiAlexander presenting this exciting new paper at the @AfEconHis. – at Pretoria, South Africa
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If you're interested in learning more about Munashe's work, be sure to attend his presentation on Saturday, May 27th, 2023, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, during Session 7C: Empire, in Ariane 3.
Conference Programme link: ebhsoc.org/2023/05/porto-con…
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📕🌍New AEHN Working Paper No. 72 by @beckerbastian & @FelixMzS1 :
Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa?
Studying: (i) mission denominational effects, (ii) role of female missionaries on long-term women's educ + agency.
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📕Book Presentation at #ESSHC23 on "Quantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past" @BloomsburyHist edited by @JohanFourieZA @LEAP_SU
Contributions by Kate Ekama @MichieldeHaas @JonathanSchoots @Edkerby @kris_inwood Maphosa, Mbem, Links ...
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We will be at the @CTCycleTour Expo to celebrate its 45th year and show off our latest kit and accessories. You can find us at stands 125 - 127.
See you there. 🚴♀️🚴♂️⚡
#VyeTribe #itsaVYEb #cycling #roadcycling #ctct #ctcycletour #ctcycletour2023 #capetown
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Here is a new paper from the Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers by @Edkerby, @MoradiAlexander, and @UbuntR314 on “African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?” ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f1… @OAOxford #twitterstorians #econhist