Erik Green

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the need to properly conceptualise colonial settlement as an endogenous development process shaped by the interaction between prospective settlers and indigenous peoples, and conduct three comparative case studies in West, East and Southern Africa, showing that the success or failure of colonial settlement critically depended on colonial government policies arranging European farmer's access to local land, but above all, local labour resources.

TL;DR: The field of African economic history is in resurgence as mentioned in this paper and there is a wide range of contributions in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety, but there is also a challenge: different methodological approaches may also result in divisions, particularly on the quantitative versus qualitative axis.

TL;DR: The Nieboer-Domar hypothesis has proved to be a powerful tool for identifying the economic conditions under which slavery was more likely to emerge as a dominant form of labour.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the strategies and intensity of agricultural extension services changed over time but the aim of intervention, i.e. to combat soil erosion, remained the focal point throughout the colonial period, and that it is important to distinguish between strategies and scale of intervention on the one hand and their aims and contents on the other.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new estimates of the Khoesan population of the Cape Colony by combining household-level settler data with anecdotal accounts of Khoean labour.