{"id":63608,"date":"2025-10-30T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:19:45","slug":"18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network","title":{"rendered":"18th ANNUAL MEETING OF AFRICA ECONOMIC HISTORY NETWORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The National University of Lesotho (NUL) held the 18th Annual Conference of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) in Maseru on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the conference was \u201cDisruptions and Resilience in African Economic Transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his presentation on Basotho Labour Migration into Apartheid South Africa, Mr. Noah Echa Attah from NUL focused on the migration of Basotho people from the late 19th century through the Apartheid era.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Attah explained that Basotho migrated to South Africa in search of gold and diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>He further elaborated that this migration led to long-term family separation, placed a double burden on women, disrupted relationships, and created marital challenges among others.<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted that many Basotho women migrated to South Africa to work long hours for lower wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost women left to go and work as domestic workers in South Africa, while their husbands worked in the mine industries causing separation in most families,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, he emphasized that women\u2019s labour sustained the migrant system despite their exclusion from it.<\/p>\n<p>AENH is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration, and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying long-term development of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The National University of Lesotho (NUL) held the 18th Annual Conference of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) in Maseru on Thursday. The theme of the conference was \u201cDisruptions and Resilience in African Economic Transformation.\u201d During his presentation on Basotho Labour Migration into Apartheid South Africa, Mr. Noah Echa Attah from NUL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-63608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>18th ANNUAL MEETING OF AFRICA ECONOMIC HISTORY NETWORK - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National University of Lesotho (NUL) held the 18th Annual Conference of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"18th ANNUAL MEETING OF AFRICA ECONOMIC HISTORY NETWORK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National University of Lesotho (NUL) held the 18th Annual Conference of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-30T20:33:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-30T21:19:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/10\/sm_1761846554.816101.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1167\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"18th ANNUAL MEETING OF AFRICA ECONOMIC HISTORY NETWORK\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-30T20:33:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-30T21:19:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/10\/sm_1761846554.816101.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/18th-annual-meeting-of-africa-economic-history-network\",\"name\":\"18th ANNUAL MEETING OF AFRICA ECONOMIC HISTORY NETWORK - 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