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Introducing the forthcoming special issue on "Comparative Development in colonial Africa" in @rhi_ihr edited jointly with @DacilJuif & Kate Frederick at the @AfEconHis Meeting 2024 @SapienzaRoma, including 5 papers on Portuguese 🇦🇴🇲🇿 French 🇸🇳🇧🇯🇲🇱 and British African 🇿🇲 colonies.
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What to learn from 712 journeys of 605 travellers to Africa?
Article summary by @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander & Odendaal in @EcHistSocReview :
African Time Travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)
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Fascinating work: 230,000 pages of travel diaries exploring 500 years of Africa's economic history. In a way, a wake-up call on the key role of the observer (bias) at generalizing historical knowledge. @EcHistSocReview
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Among the most exciting datasets and innovative approaches in (African) Economic History asking new questions by @MoradiAlexander & @Edkerby
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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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Had a fantastic time visiting @Harvard Houghton’s special collections library, collecting some more data for @TimeTravelData @LEAP_SU 📈📖
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LEAP's @Edkerby & co-authors use computational methods to uncover new perspectives
Kerby, E., Moradi, A., and Odendaal, H., 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?', The Economic History
Review, (2024), pp. 1-38.
doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13344
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Thanks to the organizers of the African Economic History @AfEconHis Conference 2023 (5-6 October, University of Pretoria). The atmosphere was inspiring & friendly as always, & took place in a very pleasant environment, the Future Africa campus. Some of my personal highlights 👇
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Similar spirit, but much broader in scope and still in its early stages: the project presented by @MoradiAlexander and @Edkerby. Using advanced techniques, they created a huge, searchable database of first-hand traveller accounts in pre-colonial Africa: timetraveller.voyage/
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Up now a fascinating project: @TimeTravelData @MoradiAlexander @Edkerby - hopefully inspiring for our first year history students!
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Thanks for having me at this stunning workshop in an awesome location! Hard to get to but totally worth it, and some great discussions over dinner! thanks @FelixMzS1 @MoradiAlexander @giacomodeluca_
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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
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Our very own twitter unfindable Auke Rijpma presenting in Stellenbosch. Thanks to @JohanFourieZA, Amy Rommelsmacher and. co for a great multi-day set of workshops!
Wonderful @LEAP_SU seminar on the ‘coding’ historians. Auke Rijpma (@ESH_UU) showing us where data and history research is going: Big data like @TimeTravelData with OCR (soon HTR), text analysis, advanced language models and reproducibility are the future. #digitalhumanities
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Trans-Saharan trade; both the slave trade and the commodities trade was insignificant to the economies south of the Sahara
The few econometric figures we have from 19th century explorer accounts are illuminating on this, despite their authors' contradictory conclusions
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As promised, we are opening up our traveller account text data through an #RStats package {timetravelData}. Preregistration for extended access can be found at timetraveller.voyage/data/. We would love to get some feedback on what can be improved!
r-software.timetraveller.voy…
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Among the most innovative and fascinating @AfEconHis research projects right now: @MoradiAlexander & @Edkerby reconstructing Africa's past, spanning 1500-1900, through 2,500 primary travel accounts.
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Archibong wonders whose story we are telling. If colonial infrastructure, education, etc. was beneficial to persistent GDP outcomes, who were the ones providing the labour? How important was prison labour in colonial public works construction?
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Exciting launch of a new project hot off the press. There is something for everyone here: #EconTwitter for a new data source and #RStats for the use of R packages in #NLP. For launch of R and python interface follow @TimeTravelData
First working paper is out from @MoradiAlexander, @Edkerby and @UbuntR314:
African Time Traveller - what we learn from 500 years of written accounts.
