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.
@MoradiAlexander presenting how narratives from European- Africans encounters develop, diffuse and persist over hundreds of years. Using text-as-data, and innovative methods from social psychology. Joint with @UbuntR314 and @Edkerby. Great audience at the @AfEconHis. #textasdata
The team - @coetzeelauren and @KarinPallaver - presenting new work on pre-modern currency areas @AfEconHis. Frontier research using BIG DATA to show how Africa was more integrated than previously thought. Joint with @MoradiAlexander, @ale_decola and @Edkerby
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 (https://t.co/WFH0h21mOJ)
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
https://t.co/9TLrztftVF
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.
https://t.co/4STqw03h2w
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.
We can also compare adjective frequencies for descriptions of Villains, Victims, and Hero's across the corpus. European hero's are adventurous, but African hero's are loyal.