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Author: Matthew Sterling Benson

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Matthew Sterling Benson

Matthew Sterling Benson is a social and economic historian of Africa in the Conflict and Civicness Research Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he is also the Sudans Research Director and affiliate staff in LSE’s Department of Economic History. Matthew is currently writing a book examining the history of revenue and different forms of often coercive rule in the Sudans.

  • Africa's Foreign EngagementsDebating IdeasDecolonisationEconomies and SocietiesScramble for Africa
    By Matthew Sterling Benson
    March 13, 2025
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    Business, Borders and Bloodshed: Undoing the Berlin Conference’s Economic and Political Legacies

    Final episode of the #ScrambleforAfrica series: business, borders and bloodshed
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  • Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPolitics and Political EconomySouth Sudan
    By Matthew Sterling Benson
    June 11, 2024
    430
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    What’s Past is Prologue? Identifying and Rupturing a History of Predatory Rule in South Sudan

    History of predatory rule in South Sudan
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