The Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was established in 1805. It was the largest state in West Africa during the 19th Century that stayed for about one hundred years and bequeathed a number…
Mercantilism
Mercantilism: Meaning and Features
What is Mercantilism? Economic theory is a set of thoughts, beliefs, traditions, or laws that are employed in the study of economic phenomena and solving economic problems. Economic theory is…
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The Slave Trade: Causes, and Impacts on African Society
Slave trade simply is a trade where people are traded as articles of trade. The term widely gained prominence by the obnoxious trans-Atlantic slave trade in which European merchants, regulated…
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Summary: The Trans-Saharan Trade Routes (till 19th century)
It is uncommon to see African scholars stressing the importance of any slave trade, especially the trans-Saharan and the trans-Atlantic slave trades. Prior to the fifteenth century, when the European…
Economic History and Other Cognate Disciplines
" A good economist “must be a mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopherto some degree. He [sic] must understand symbols and speak in words. He mustcontemplate the particular in terms of the…
The Importance of Studying Economic History
Economic History…becomes a discipline that concerns itself with the economic ramifications of the past- looking in to different historic economic survival (concepts) like the cost of production, the process,…