The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) proudly celebrates the contribution of its Board Chair, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, to the newly published Economics and Literature (1st Edition, 2025). In Chapter 2, titled “Tradition and Modernity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart,” co-authored with Prof. Jean-Philippe Platteau, Prof. Aryeetey examines how fiction can inform […] The post Tradition and Modernity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Achebe’s Th...
