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…
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…
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…
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…
" 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…
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,…
Economic History is a mother discipline that lacks a universally agreed definition. The broad nature of this discipline makes scholars have diverse views on this course; however, there are agreeable…